Rising Divorce Among the Nuer, 1936-1983

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ID2573871
AutoresSharon Hutchinson (0000-0002-6891-6758), Sharon E Hutchinson (autor de correspondencia)
Año1990
Volumen25
Número3
Páginas393
Fecha de publicación1990-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMan (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0025-1496 • E-ISSN: 2397-2548
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2803710
OpenAlexW2254283836
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas8

Anthropologists have conumonly taken a view ofAfrican marriage that ethnocentrically equates 'stability' with the degree of rights husbands and their kin formally acquire in women through marriage payments. Recent historical evidence from the Sudanese Nuer, however, contradicts this assumption. Jural divorce rates have been rising rapidly over the last half century at the same time as Nuer husbands and their kin have been acquirng ever greater legal rights in their wives and children through the agency ofgovernment courts. The article shows how evolving court policies and practices in this regard have been working against women's interests within marriage. It also documents changing Nuer concepts ofmarrnage, divorce and bridewealth exchange between 1936 and 1983

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