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Title: | Marital strategy in Lesotho: the redistribution of migrant earnings |
Author: | Murray, Colin |
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. |