 Contents
List of tables
List of illustrations
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Ewe Orthography
SECTION 1. The General Problem
I. Introducing operationalism
II. General orientation of the work
III. Abutia : location and position
IV. The three villages
SECTION 2. Politics
I. National and traditional
- A. The contemporary judiciary organization
- B. The contemporary administrative and legislative organization
II. The 'traditional' body politic
- A. The fhome
- B. The agbanu
- C. The sãme
- D. The du
- E. The Division
III. Reconstructing the precolonial polity : 1870-90
- A. Political sovereignty
- B. Political sovereignty in precolonial Abutia
IV. Village sovereignty : its political implications
- A. Within the village
- B. Between the villages
V. Village sovereignty : its demographic implications
- A. Village reproduction
- B. Descent group reproduction
SECTION 3. Residential and domestic groups
I. Residence in an operational perspective
II. Defining the Abutia dwelling-place
III. Describing and classifying residential groups
IV. The analysis of residential groups
- A. Understanding male-headed nucleated residential groups
- B. Understanding female-headed nucleated residential groups
- C. Understanding non-nucleated residential groups
- D. Individuals incorporated into nucleated groups
V. Production in Abutia
- A. Agricultural production
- B. Other productive activities
VI. Other 'domestic' activities and their groups
VII. Residence in a comparative perspective
SECTION 4. Matrimonial practices
I. Defining marriage
II. Marriage prohibitions and preferences
III. The origin of spouses
IV. Polygyny in Abutia
- A. Incidence and intensity
- B. The Abutia polygynists
- C. Polygyny, wealth and demographic increase
V. Divorce in Abutia
- A. Divorce frequencies : some methodological problems
- B. Present and cumulative marital status
- C. Risks of divorce
- D. Divorce over time
VI. Explaining Abutia matrimonial practices
SECTION 5. Social change in Abutia
CONCLUSION
Appendices
- 1. Estimate of population growth
- 2. Land tenure
- 3. Paramount Chief enstoolment
- 4. Marriage and patrifillation
- 5. The developmental cycle
- 6. Residential distribution of individuals
- 7. Individual residential history
- 8. Domestic activities and their related groups
- 9. The marriage ceremony
- 10. Kinship terminology
- 11. Age pyramids
Tables
Bibliography
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