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Title:Ethnicity and Marriage Patterns in Mozambique
Author:Arnaldo, Carlos
Year:2004
Periodical:African Population Studies
Volume:19
Issue:1
Period:April
Pages:143-164
Language:English
Geographic term:Mozambique
Subjects:ethnic identity
Lomwe
Makua
Sena
Tsonga
marriage
Women's Issues
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?ep04008
Abstract:Marriage in sub-Saharan Africa has been commonly described as early and universal. Yet, its patterns vary across countries and even within countries among different cultural groups. Mozambique is culturally heterogeneous with both patrilineal and matrilineal systems of social organization represented. Using data from the 1997 Census and 1997 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS), this article examines differentials in marriage patterns among four ethnic groups in Mozambique: Tsonga, Sena/Ndau, Lomwe/Chuwabo, Macua, and Others, a residual group. Multivariate analyses are used to explore whether the reported ethnic differentials in age at first marriage, polygyny and marital dissolution can be attributed to ethnicity or to other characteristics that distinguish the ethnic groups. The findings are consistent with culture-associated differentials. After controlling for the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of women, the differences remain, with the matrilineal ethnic groups (Macua and Lomwe/Chuwabo) having an earlier age at marriage, lower prevalence of polygyny and higher marital dissolution than the patrilineal ethnic groups (Tsonga and Sena/Ndau). Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract]
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