Forbidden fruit in the compound: A case study of migration, spousal separation and group-wife adultery in northwest Ghana

Africa

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 559-581

  Lobnibe, Isidore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; MIGRATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34548337436     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2005.75.4.559     Document Type: Article

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