Captive Wives or Conjugal Slaves? The Slavery-Marriage Nexus in Northern Uganda Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Captive Wives or Conjugal Slaves? The Slavery-Marriage Nexus in Northern Uganda Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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俘虏妻子还是夫妻奴隶？
DOI：
10.1080/0144039x.2022.2063237
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发表时间：
2022
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0.7
通讯作者：
Benedetta Rossi
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作者：
E. Seymour;E. Apio;Benedetta Rossi
本文考察了从19世纪末到现在，乌干达北部婚姻与奴隶制关系的转变。这篇文章将圣主抵抗军（Lord’s Resistance Army）绑架女孩的强迫婚姻历史化，有助于解释为何对这些情况的解释在乌干达和国际上如此有争议。本文首先考察了对多米尼克·翁格文和他被强迫的妻子之间关系的不同解读。翁文案随后被置于兰戈和阿乔利社会中囚禁女性和夫妻暴力的历史背景中。有人认为，在19世纪末和20世纪初，战时囚禁形式的奴役与乌干达北部的婚姻并不是不可调和的，这段历史影响了当代兰戈和阿乔利对这些现象的看法。
ABSTRACT This article examines transformations in the marriage-slavery nexus in Northern Uganda from the late nineteenth century to the present. By historicizing the forced marriage of abducted girls in the Lord’s Resistance Army, the article contributes to explaining why the interpretation of these circumstances has been so disputed in Uganda and internationally. It starts by examining different interpretations of the relationship between Dominic Ongwen and his forced wives. The Ongwen case is then contextualized in the history of female captivity and conjugal violence in Lango and Acholi societies. It is argued that enslavement in the form of wartime captivity was not irreconcilable with marriage in Northern Uganda in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and that this history influences contemporary Lango and Acholi perceptions of these phenomena.