AAAD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Identity, Female Genital Mutilation, Bride Price
17 Dec 2016
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Week 4 gender, kinship, and reproduction in pre-colonial and colonial africa (sept. 13) Judith van allen, sitting on a man" colonialism and the lost political. Pre colonial period: the igbo women had their own political and social roles. The practice of sitting on a man gave women their own political and social agency. Post colonial period: colonists change the igbo traditions and introduced a western social structure that denied these women political and social power and participation. Women"s power was invisible to colonial powers. Women"s status was not dependent on men, but men still had more ability/access to power. Women"s power in local trade, crops, and mikiri council assembly. Council purpose: to get men to behave properly . Women held mikiri to deal with their own problems and complain about husbands. Nigeria - colonized by the british and had an indirect rule. Northern nigeria is predominantly muslim while the south is predominantly christian.
