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Title:Inheritance and Women's Labour in Africa
Authors:Goody, JackISNI
Buckley, Joan
Year:1973
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:43
Issue:2
Period:April
Pages:108-121
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Africa
Subjects:women's work
customary law
family law
Women's Issues
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159323
Abstract:The author discusses some of the correlates of the dominant partplayed by women in African hoe cultivation. Female farming is strongly linked to two types of inheritance, firstly, to matrilineal systems and secondly, with the form of vertical inheritance that Gluckman has called the house property complex. Ref., tables, maps, summary.
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