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Title:Marital strategy in Lesotho: the redistribution of migrant earnings
Author:Murray, ColinISNI
Year:1976
Periodical:African Studies
Volume:35
Issue:2
Pages:99-121
Language:English
Geographic term:Lesotho
Subjects:marriage
labour migration
Women's Issues
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Urbanization and Migration
Economics and Trade
Labor and Employment
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00020187608707470
Abstract:To make clear what the implications are of the use of cash in marriage payments (although the reckoning is invariably in head of cattle), especially where migrant labour is a way of life, for the substance and the theory of marriage, is the aim of the article. Sections: comparative evidence - normative rules - actual payments - illustration - conclusion. Notes, ref., tables.
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