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| Title: | Cousin Marriage in the Afro-Arab Community of Mombasa, Kenya |
| Author: | Turner, R.E.S. |
| Year: | 1964 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | April |
| Pages: | 127-138 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | marriage Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1157903 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1964-034-00-000012 |
| Abstract: | This study deals with the Afro-Arab community of Mombasa which derives from Arab immigrants and their Arab and African wives whose descendants have been settled on the East African seaboard for several centuries. They have kept their cultural identity through the social and religious observance of Islam and its marriage and inheritance laws. They have always kept themselves culturally and socially distinct from the non-Moslem Bantu tribes with whom they are geographically intermingled. This study of cousin marriage within Afro-Arab patrilineal descent groups is ba sed on data obtained in the course of an investigation into the demographic aspects of intermarriage relating to fertility. Data were obtainei for the marriages of a number of informants and of their parents and grandparents descending from a named male ancestor. These provided particulars of the marriages of 630 individuals in the informants' generation from which the incidence and character of cousin marriages could be analysed. References cited; summary in French. |
