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Questions of Identity and Inheritance: A Critical Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Abstract
Judeo-Christian and Anglo-Saxon forms of marriage have injected patrilineal values and companionate expectations into the Akan matrilineal family structure. As Anthony Appiah demonstrates, these infusions have generated severe strains in the matrikin social structures and, in extreme cases, resulted in the break up of families. In this essay, I investigate the ideological politics at play in this patrilinealization of Asante society.
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- Review Essay
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- Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 1: Special Issue: The Family and Feminist Theory , Winter 1996 , pp. 175 - 201
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- Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.