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Title: | Forbidden Fruit in the Compound: A Case Study of Migration, Spousal Separation and Group-Wife Adultery in Northwest Ghana |
Author: | Lobnibe, Isidore |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 75 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 559-581 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | Dagari extramarital sexuality labour migration conflict resolution social change Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Urbanization and Migration Cultural Roles arts Marital Relations and Nuptiality Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3556961 |
Abstract: | This paper explores the anthropological implications of the notion of adultery by showing how it can improve insight into a local debate about descent, migration and local responses to it, among communities belonging to the Dagara of northwestern Ghana. Using a case study of group-wife adultery, that is, a sexual affair between a man and the wife of a fellow member of the same patrilineal descent group in the context of male migration, the paper highlights the tension between a husband's sexual rights over his wife and those of his descent group over the wife's procreation. It further examines the rituals surrounding the resolution of the case and the arguments generated by it as a prism through which to view social change and Dagara social organization. An evaluation of the community views about spousal separation, the punishment associated with group-wife adultery and the multiple repsonses of its members to the offence is presented with ethnographic examples. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |