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67 In this literature, the lives and voices of the rural women of the Sul do Save tend to fade behind highly conceptual or legalistic discourses centred on polygyny, bridewealth (lobola), virilocality, and other purportedly disempowering (i.e., patriarchal) manifestations of patrilineal kinship.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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A social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents.
April 11, 2011