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African Widows: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

Maria G. Cattell PhD
Pages 49-66 | Published online: 17 Oct 2008

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Ignatius Gutsa. (2022) Making Ends Meet: Experiences of Older Women Heading Households in Rural Domboshava, Zimbabwe. African Studies 81:2, pages 170-187.
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Beverly Rosa Williams, Patricia Sawyer & Richard M. Allman. (2012) Wearing the Garment of Widowhood: Variations in Time Since Spousal Loss Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults. Journal of Women & Aging 24:2, pages 126-139.
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Patience Mususa. (2010) ‘Getting by’: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines. Social Dynamics 36:2, pages 380-394.
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Maria G. Cattell. 2021. Aging Across Cultures. Aging Across Cultures 67 81 .
JOANNA DAVIDSON. (2020) The problem of widows. American Ethnologist 47:1, pages 43-57.
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Ivy L. Pike. (2018) Intersections of Insecurity, Nurturing, and Resilience: A Case Study of Turkana Women of Kenya. American Anthropologist 121:1, pages 126-137.
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Matsobane Manala. (2015) African traditional widowhood rites and their benefits and/or detrimental effects on widows in a context of African Christianity. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 71:3.
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Rose Korang-Okrah & Wendy Haight. (2014) Ghanaian (Akan) women’s experiences of widowhood and property rights violations: An ethnographic inquiry. Qualitative Social Work 14:2, pages 224-241.
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Jane Rose M. Njue, Dorothy Rombo, Anne N. Lutomia, Laura S. Smart, Lynn M. Mwaniki & Inviolata L. Sore. 2015. The World of Bereavement. The World of Bereavement 3 23 .
Wendy Haight, Misa Kayama & Rose Korang-Okrah. (2013) Ethnography in social work practice and policy. Qualitative Social Work 13:1, pages 127-143.
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Sanyu A. Mojola. (2014) Providing Women, Kept Men: Doing Masculinity in the Wake of the African HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 39:2, pages 341-363.
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