Marriage and Family Among the Yakö in South-Eastern Nigeria

ISBN-13: 9781138588103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 138 str.

Forde, Daryll

Opis

Originally published in 1951 this book analyses the social values and institutions involved in the establishment and maintenance of marital relationships. Most of the data is derived from Umor, the largest of the five Yakö villages. As well as considering the conventions through which mariatal values are expressed, the relation of marital status to the general structure of Yakö society is also discussed. The book also determines the extent to which the values posited by the Yakö themselves are actually operative and discusses the changing conditions which have modified traditional standars of marital behaviour.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Significance of the Kinship and Age Set Systems. 3. Pre-Marital Relations and Betrothal 4. The Marriage Rites 5. Analysis of Marriage Rites 6. Seclusion of the Bride 7. Rites During the First Pregnancy 8. Frequency of Pre-Marital Pregnancy 9. Marriage Money: Libeman 10. The Establishment of a Household 11. Dissolution of a Marriage 12. Polygyny 13. The Relative Ages of Spouses 14. Fertility 15. Household and Family

O autorze

Daryll Fforde from 1945  worked at University College London, and built a school of American-style cultural anthropology there, distinct from the social anthropology of British-trained contemporaries such as Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Meyer Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard.