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Aku Nna Bride Price Father
409 wordsThis book was a story about a Nigerian family and the tradition of the bride price. Part of the story takes place in Lagos where Aku-nna, the protagonist, grew up. After her father dies she is forced to move to Ibiza to live with her father's brother in a whole different culture from her own. Her mother, Ma-Blackie married her husband's brother, Okonkwo, making him Aku-nna's step-father This entitled him to her bride price, which was expected to be exorbitant amount. Okonkwo needed this bride pr...
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Mother In Law Foot Binding
1,872 words... o longer subordinate to men. Kang Youwzi, a late Qing reformer was correct in his belief that women's emancipation must go through three stages of social evolutions. First there would be disorder, then increasing peace with equality, and finally complete peace and equality. It took the chaos of the nationalist revolution, and once they took power women had increasing peace and equality. When the communists finally took over they achieved total equality. Once women finally had total equality ...
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Bride Price First Time
1,756 wordsThe Red Tent In Diamant's powerful novel The Red Tent the ever-silent Dinah from the 34 th chapter of Genesis is finally given her own voice, and the story she tells is a much different one then expected. With the guiding hands of her four "mothers", Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, all the wives of Jacob, we grow with Dinah from her childhood in Mesopotamia through puberty, where she is then entered into the "red tent", and well off into her adulthood from Cannan to Egypt. Throughout her journ...
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Gross National Product Sugar Cane
2,953 wordsHilda Beemer was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), into a family of Viennese Jewish immigrants. She grew up in Johannesburg and went to Witwatersrand University for her undergraduate studies. She received there the B. A. degree in anthropology. In 1932, she came to London, where she studied under the charismatic teacher Bronislaw Malinowski at the London School of Economics, where she obtained the M. A. and Ph. D. degrees in social anthropology. In 1934, she was awarded a grant by the ...
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1 St Ed Marriage Ceremony
1,705 words... marriage, she pauses. The questions repeated three times and it is only at the last time that she will say yes. To make the bridegroom wait for the brides answer is to signify that it is the husband who seeks the wife and is anxious to have her and not the other way around. During the service female relatives of the couple (mainly the bride) hold over the couples head a fine scarf or other delicate fabrics like silk. Two different actions take place at the same time. Two pieces of crystalliz...
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Husband And Wife Men And Women
1,826 wordsThere are several ways one can look at the status of women in any society. During the last decade at least three approaches, not necessarily mutually exclusive, were discernible. One was to examine the common demographic indicators that give an overall picture of womens relative standing vis-? -vis men. According to the 1981 census, the se ratio stood at 933 females per 1000 males. The literacy rate was 46. 89 per cent for males and 24. 82 per cent for females. The life expectancy at birth for f...
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Number Of People Mother
1,188 wordsThe Swazi of Swaziland Introduction Swazi? s are said to belong to the Nguni people who lived in central Africa and migrated to southern Africa. They speak the Siswati language, a language earlier spoken by the Nguni group of the Bantu family. They seem to have settle in Swaziland around five hundred years ago. They were then ruled by the British from the mid 19 th century to mid 20 th century. Swaziland is a monarchy and is ruled by King Swazi III. Social Organization The social organization in...
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