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The rebellious girl who wants the perfect man: role assignments in folktales of the bulsa in Northern Ghana

dc.contributor.authorSchott, Rüdiger
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-28T18:28:18Z
dc.date.available2012-06-28T18:28:18Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractGirls are social misfits in patrilineal and virilocal societies. (Or: Are patrilineal societies not fit to meet the emotional needs of nubile girls?) They cause problems for their parents as well as for their husbands because their place in patrilineal societies shifts between their ‘family of orientation’ and their ‘family of procreation. Boys, in contrast to girls, have their place fixed in their patrilineage as well as in their father’s house and local clan section from birth until death, and even thereafter as ancestors2 .
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1372
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewednopor
dc.publisherCentro de Estudos Ataíde Oliveirapor
dc.titleThe rebellious girl who wants the perfect man: role assignments in folktales of the bulsa in Northern Ghanapor
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceFaropor
oaire.citation.endPage136por
oaire.citation.issue5 (1999)por
oaire.citation.startPage121por
oaire.citation.titleE.L.O.: Estudos de Literatura Oralpor
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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