Essays about: "bwiam"

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  1. 1. Land, Life and Women’s lack of Power - A field study based on two divorced women in Bwiam, Gambia.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Filippa Wickenberg; [2014]
    Keywords : traditional societies; women and poverty; land access; traditional farming; rural household; female-headed household; farming division of labour; female farming; Gambia; Bwiam; polygamous marriages; customary land laws; human ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This is a fieldwork following the daily life during two months of two divorced women in the village Bwiam, Gambia. It is a study focusing on females in a patriarchal society and how they are bound by the social structures to be married, often into polygamous households, how they farm the land by traditional methods, learnt over generations, to support their families and how they sell their produce at the market. READ MORE