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- W81751566 abstract "Ethnographers and anthropologists dealing with Africa have often had to work on a practice variably referred to as “ghost marriage” or “women marriage” or “woman to woman marriage.” This otherwise diversely practiced custom among many African societies is in the case of the Iraqw people of north-central Tanzania characterized by marriage of a young woman to a non-existent husband hence the caption “marrying a ghost.” The non-existent husband could be an elderly womans son who died before marrying or quite often an imagined son of a woman who never had a male child. The practice dates back to the pre-colonial days in many studied cases and several societies uphold it to date although its scale and popularity may have declined significantly over the years. Ethnic groups known to have practiced this custom include the Zulu the Igbo the Nuer the Lovedu the Nandi and the Kuria of northern Tanzania. The present article revisits this aspect of African culture with two main objectives. The first is to document the specificities of this practice among the Iraqw people of north- central Tanzania. To the best of the authors knowledge this task has yet to receive attention in the literature. Secondly an attempt is made to discern the social and demographic implications of this practice. The significance of this latter objective lies in the fact that although ghost marriage immediately evokes gender-related feelings and concerns with possible consequential demographic problems a different image obtains when the practice is placed in its specific historical and social contexts. (excerpt)" @default.
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- W81751566 title "Marrying a ghost: notes on woman marriage among the Iraqw and its socio-demographic implications." @default.
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