Women's worth and wedding gift exchange in Maradi, Niger, 1907–89

The Journal of African History

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 121-140

  Cooper, Barbara M ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIFT EXCHANGE; MARRIAGE CUSTOMS; WOMEN'S STATUS;

NIGER, MARADI VALLEY;

EID: 0028823676     PISSN: 00218537     EISSN: 14695138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700027006     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Barbara Callaway, Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change (Syracuse, 1987), 69–70. Enid Schildkrout, ‘Dependence and autonomy: the economic activities of secluded Hausa women in Kano, Nigeria’, in E. Bay (ed.), Women and Work in Africa (Boulder, 1982), 74. For a provocative view of how women's food trade can be seen as ‘unproductive’ see Claude Raynaut, ‘Aspects socio-économiques de la préparation et de la circulation de la nourriture dans un village hausa (Niger)’, Cah. Ét. Afr 141 (1977), 569-597
2. Marcel Mauss, The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, trans. Ian Cunnison (New York, 1967), 8–10, 40–3.
3. Barbara M. Cooper, ‘ Reflections on slavery, seclusion, and female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’, J. Afr. Hist., xxxv (1994), 61–79
4. Hajjiya ‘Jeka’, 14 Feb. 1989.
5. Mary F. Smith, Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa (New Haven, 1981), 175.
6. Cooper, ‘Reflections’.
7. Comaroff, ‘Introduction’, 33.