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Marriage and Family Among the Yakö in South-Eastern Nigeria book cover

1st Edition

Marriage and Family Among the Yakö in South-Eastern Nigeria

Edited By Daryll Forde Copyright 1951
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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