Class, Endogamy and Urbanization in the 'Three Towns' of the Sudan

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Title:	Class, Endogamy and Urbanization in the 'Three Towns' of the Sudan
Author:	Lobban, Richard A.
Year:	1979
Periodical:	African Studies Review
Volume:	22
Issue:	3
Period:	December
Pages:	99-114
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Sudan
Subjects:	urban society class formation endogamy Urbanization and Migration Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/523898
Abstract:	Within the geographical context of the Sudanese Three Town agglomeration embracing Khartoum, Khartoum North, and Omdurman, the effects of the socio-historical process of class formation and urbanisation on patterns in the institutions of marriage are measured as barometers of wider social change. The basic hypothesis is that the rise of more complex systems of class stratification is associated with a decline of former patterns of endogamy. Notes, ref., tab.