o:id
	12760
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12760
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	The Scorpion's Sting: Youth, Marriage and the Struggle for Social Maturity in Niger
dcterms:subject
	Dogondoutchi
	Hausa people
	marriage
	youth
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25091
dcterms:date
	2005
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312314 Q117312314
	iwac-reference-0000260
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	Through a focus on the problems associated with bridewealth and wedding expenses in Dogondoutchi, a predominantly Muslim town of some 38,000 Hausa speakers in rural Niger, I discuss the predicament of young Mawri men who, in the double pursuit of marriage and maturity, often struggle to satisfy contradictory sets of moral and financial requirements. I trace the distinctive and divergent ways in which Mawri men and women of different generations participate in interpenetrating debates about wealth, domesticity, and sexuality to highlight how the experience of social reproduction is shaped by distinctly local dynamics of gender and generation. In contemporary Niger, the combined effects of neo-liberal economics and reformist Islam have massively transformed the terms and meaning of marriage. What emerges most conspicuously from this exploration of the ways in which processes of identity formation are played out in the controversial arena of marriage is the palpable sense of declining opportunities that young men experience as they delay marriage.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1684
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1467-9655.2005.00226.X 10.1111/J.1467-9655.2005.00226.X
bibo:issue
	1
bibo:pageEnd
	83
bibo:pageStart
	59
bibo:volume
	11

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