Title: Patriarchal West Africa?
Product review: Sorry, but I didn't say those West African societies were matriarchies -- just that they are not patriarchies, they don't fit Goldberg's statement that "There is not, nor has there ever been, any society that even remotely failed to associate authority and leadership in suprafamilial areas with the male. There are no borderline cases."Check of the political and social roles of the Sande secret society among the Mende, the control of Ibo and Yoruba market systems by women and and the power wielded by elite Yoruba women in the palaces. Refs available on request.Problem is, looking at these questions demands rather more care than a quick search on the Internet.
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