caa a22 4500 388103620 CHVBK 20180307125329.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020859000115172 doi S0020859000115172 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020859000115172 Greene Sandra E. Family Concerns: Gender and Ethnicity in Pre-Colonial West Africa [Elektronische Daten] [Sandra E. Greene] For at least the past twenty years, historians of pre-colonial Africa have studied gender and ethnic relations, but have focused on either gender or ethnicity without making reference to the other. This essay redresses this neglect by demonstrating that changes in gender and ethnic relations within pre-colonial Africa so profoundly influenced each other that it is impossible to understand one without also taking into consideration the other. Documenting this intersection requires more than simply reconstructing how ethnic groups (in their efforts to compete with others for social and political status) altered gender relations within their societies by handling differentially the affairs of their female and male members. It involves more than analyzing how those disadvantaged because of their gender used the prevailing ethnic relations to ameliorate their own situations, and how these actions in turn altered ethnic relations in the societies in which they lived. It requires as well that we reconceptualize the very definition of ethnicity. Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1999 International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 44/S7(1999-12), 15-31 0020-8590 44:S7<15 1999 44 ISH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000115172 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000115172 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Greene Sandra E. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 44/S7(1999-12), 15-31 0020-8590 44:S7<15 1999 44 ISH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge