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Citation

Johnson‐Hanks J. Am. Ethnol. 2007; 34(4): 642-658.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.642

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this article, I show how dramatic social changes in Yaoundé, Cameroon, are the product of women applying long-standing cultural schemata in a changed economic context. Marriage rates are falling precipitously, and growing numbers of relatively elite women are looking beyond the nation's borders for husbands. Yet, as these women seek foreign husbands, their models of marriage are largely transposed out of older forms of bridewealth: E-mail-mediated marriage draws as much on local history as on global politics.

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