UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series Presents:

Bridewealt (Lobolo), Socialism, and Women in Mozambique

By Soledad Vieitez

Despite a century of radical change, the payment of bridewealth ('lobolo') has persisted throughout Southern Africa. In Mozambique, 20 years of socialist revolution under the leadership of Frelimo failed either to abolish 'lobolo' or to "liberate" women. Tracing the form and meaning of marriage transactions from the colonial epoch to the current period of liberal reform helps to explain why the political economy of southern Africa continues to depend so profoundly on the subordination of women, and how this in turn depends on the perpetuation and manipulation of pre-colonial relations of reproduction.



Wednesday October 22, 1997
HSSB 2001A, The Anthropology Conference Room

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