Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa /

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This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, comparative ethnography, oral tradition, and art history to challenge the assumptions that all African societies were patriarchal and that the status of women in pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Saidi, Christine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
Manners and customs.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women > Africa, East > History.
Women > Africa, Central > History.
Africa, East.
Central Africa.
Africa, East > History > To 1886.
Africa, Central > History > To 1884.
Africa, East > Social life and customs.
Africa, Central > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The patriarchal myth: deconstruction and reconstruction
  • Correlating linguistics and archaeology in East-Central African history
  • The early social history of East-Central Africa
  • Women's authority: female coalitions, politics, and religion
  • Women's authority and female initiation in East-Central African history
  • Pots, hoes, and food: women in technology and production
  • Sacred, but never profane: sex and sexuality in East-Central African history
  • Kucilinga na lesa kupanshanya mayo.

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