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Changing themes in the analysis of African marriage / Philip Burnham -- Sens et permanence du mariage 'arabe' dans la societé maure / Pierre Bonte -- Étude de la transformation du mariage chez les Mkako du Cameroun / Elisabeth Copet-Rougier -- Mariages zaghawa : les changements liés a l'économie et à l'ideologie / Marie-José Tubiana -- Social and symbolic values of feminine kne initiation among the Guro of the Ivory Coast / Ariane Deluz -- Laughter at marriage : subversion in performance / Ivan Karp -- Symbolique des rapports entre les femmes et les hommes dans les cultes de possession de type tromba à Madagascar / Suzy-Andrée Ramamonjisoa -- The consequences for women of marriage payments in a society with patrilineal descent / Harriet Ngubane -- Aspects of change in bridewealth among the Iteso of Kenya / Nobuhiro Nagashima -- On dit que la polygamie est morte : vive la polygamie! / Rémi Clignet -- Polygamy and the household economy in a fishing village in Sierra Leone / Filomina Chioma Steady -- L'instabilité conjugale et ses conséquences dans la societé swahili de Lamu (Kenya) / Françoise Le Guennec-Coppens -- 'Outside wives' and 'inside wives' in Nigeria : a study of changing perceptions in marriage / Wambui Wa Karanja -- The old and the new in East African elite marriages / Christine Obbo -- The African or customary marriage in Kenyan law today / Gibson Kamau Kuria -- The changing role of women and their contributions to the domestic economy in Cameroon / Paul N. Nkwi -- Transformations of southern Tanzanian marriages / Rupert R. Moser -- Understanding African marriage : towards a convergence of literature and sociology / Isidore Okpewho

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