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Title:Marrying well: marriage, status and social change among the educated elite in colonial Lagos
Author:Mann, KristinISNI
Year:1985
Issue:47
Pages:194
Language:English
Series:African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X)
City of publisher:Cambridge
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:0521307015
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:elite
marriage law
marriage
women
Abstract:The history of marriage among the educated African elite in colonial Lagos. Two types of marriage, Yoruba and christian, are analysed, together with their distinctive and often contradictory legal rights and duties, domestic relationships and roles, and attitudes toward polygyny and monogamy. A de scription is given of new ideologies, new processes of social and economic differentiation, and new structure$ of political and legal authority that altered domestic relationships and roles and beliefs about domestic life.
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