Changing family strategies as a response to colonial challenge: Microanalytic observations on Siin/Senegal 1890-1960

verfasst von

Brigitte Reinwald

Abstract

The economic and social impacts of colonization on African societies are reflected, at the microlevel, by changing family structures and patterns of behavior. In order to assess the symptoms and the extent of the change, unilinear models of "modernization" have to be abandoned in favor of a concept that takes into consideration the relationship between modes of production and family strategies, on the one hand, and the position of the actors involved in the colonial process, on the other. As the example of the Siin-Siin, an agrarian Senegalese society, shows, the family as a social and economic unit has adapted to externally determined market processes and monetarized relations of distribution in the colonial context, by entering a transitional stage. This stage is characterized by individual concepts of property and rights, overlapping with collectively determined, age- and gender-ranked structures and norms of behavior.

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Hamburg

Typ

Artikel

Journal

History of the Family

Band

2

Seiten

183-195

Anzahl der Seiten

13

ISSN

1081-602X

Publikationsdatum

1997

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Verlauf, Soziologie und Politikwissenschaften, Sozialwissenschaften (sonstige)

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1016/S1081-602X(97)90005-1 (Zugang: Geschlossen)