Une femme et trois hommes.

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
M. Bekombo-Priso—One Woman, Three Men. A reconsideration of the theory of kinship terminology shifting the stress from the single husband/wife relationship to give equal weight to the mother/son and sister/ brother ones, integrating them into a four-term 'atomic' kinship pattern. The examples are taken from the patrilineal coastal Bantu of Cameroon and show how, through her marriage, a woman becomes implicated in a three-sided alliance with three men: her opposite-sex sibling, her non-kin husband, and her son. It is only through a global analysis of these three relationships that one can account in an exhaustive way for the meaning of matrimony, its mechanisms and its consequences, [pp. 299-313].Bekombo-Priso. Une femme et trois hommes.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 19, n°73-76, 1979. Gens et paroles d'Afrique. Écrits pour Denise Paulme. pp. 299-313

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: