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Burrill, Emily Susan.

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Meanings of marriage in a market town: Gender, conjugality, and law in Sikasso, French Soudan, 1895--1960.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Meanings of marriage in a market town: Gender, conjugality, and law in Sikasso, French Soudan, 1895--1960./
Author:	Burrill, Emily Susan.
Description:	265 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Richard Roberts.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
Subject:	History, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3281801
ISBN:	9780549242819

Meanings of marriage in a market town: Gender, conjugality, and law in Sikasso, French Soudan, 1895--1960.
Burrill, Emily Susan.

Meanings of marriage in a market town: Gender, conjugality, and law in Sikasso, French Soudan, 1895--1960. - 265 p.

Adviser: Richard Roberts.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2007.

Based largely on previously unexamined court records from Sikasso, the dissertation contributes to historiographical debates on women, gender, and customary and colonial law in African history.

ISBN: 9780549242819Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017555
History, African.

Meanings of marriage in a market town: Gender, conjugality, and law in Sikasso, French Soudan, 1895--1960.
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245 1 0 $a Meanings of marriage in a market town: Gender, conjugality, and law in Sikasso, French Soudan, 1895--1960.
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520 $a This dissertation is a social history of marriage and marriage-related practices in Sikasso, French Soudan, from the mid-1890s until colonial independence in 1960. The emphasis of the study is on the role of men and women---litigants, court assessors, colonial administrators, political leaders, fathers, mothers, husbands, and wives---in the codification, implementation, interpretation, and contestation of marriage practices in a market town in the French Soudan. Throughout the study, marriage and family life in colonial Sikasso serve as a lens for examining customary law in French West Africa. From the turn of the century to 1912, many women, former slaves, and junior members of households immediately approached the civil courts to break or test the social bonds that kept them as dependents of senior men and elders. However, from 1912 through the 1920s, under the guise of respecting local customary practices, civil court rulings on marriage-related cases from this time supported elder male claims over the marriages of their sons and daughters. From the 1930s to 1960, the colonial courts emphasized human rights and state intervention in local practice. This study argues that for many men and women in colonial-era Sikasso, marriage was about garnering wealth in people and goods. Over the course of the colonial period, elder men worked to consolidate their control over the flows of wealth through marriage, in terms of the exchange of bridewealth as well as the exchange of women between families. Cases that appeared to be about the abandonment of the conjugal home, bridewealth disputes or marriage promises were often about younger men attempting to claim wealth in people from elder men in the form of wives. This study argues that struggles over marriage in Sikasso throughout the colonial period were closely tied to other colonial-era transformations such as forced labor, military conscription, and the pawning of young women and children.
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