Author: Oppong, Christine.
Title: Middle Class African Marriage. (Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite). A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants.
Description: George Allen & Unwin. 190pp softcover. 0.3kg. Faded around spine, else VG condition. ISBN: 9780043011386 Previously published as "Marriage Among A Matrilineal Elite". The author belongs to the Akan people that she writes about. Practising matrilineal descent in southern Ghana, they typically migrated from farming and fishing villages to the capital, Accra, to find employment in government institutions after protracted higher education - in some cases overseas.

Keywords: anthropology social sociology africa african ghana west africa


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