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Title:The Songhay-Zarma female slave: relations of production and ideological status
Author:Olivier de Sardan, J.-P.ISNI
Book title:Women and slavery in Africa
Year:1983
Pages:130-143
Language:English
Geographic terms:Mali
Niger
Subjects:Songhai
Zarma
female slaves
Abstract:This article deals with female slavery in 19th century Songhay-Zarma (western Niger and eastern Mali). It considers the sexual and social division of labor and the place that female slaves had in it. It also links this situation with the roles, the status and the symbols associated with them. It first briefly describes the major precolonial relations of production. Fig., notes, ref.
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