Dissertation Research: Gender Division of Labor in a Polygynous Society

小行星9408655 本课题涉及一位来自加州-戴维斯大学的文化人类学学生的论文研究。 学生将研究加纳的一夫多妻制婚姻，以了解劳动分工和资本积累。 一夫多妻制的标准理论将其解释为由于男性通过控制几个妻子的劳动力来积累资源。 这个案例研究将展示一夫多妻制是如何在一个配偶经济独立的社会中发挥作用的，男人不能占有女人的劳动力。 利用民族志方法和离婚案例分析，学生将尝试建立一夫多妻制的分析模型，该模型可用于跨文化解释世界其他地区替代婚姻形式的存在。 这项研究很重要，因为了解替代婚姻形式如何在男女之间分配资源，将有助于我们了解如何设计方案，以加强家庭，并保持它作为社会化的主要单位。 这可能对离婚和抚养子女以及传播性传播疾病产生影响。

9408655 Skinner This project involves the dissertation research of a cultural anthropology student from the University of California- Davis. The student will study polygynous marriages in Ghana in order to understand the division of labor in work and capital accumulation. The standard theory of polygyny accounts for it as due to resource accumulation of men, by controlling the labor power of several wives. This case study will show how polygyny works in a society where spouses are economically independent, and men can not appropriate women's labor. Using ethnographic methods and analysis of divorce cases, the student will try make an analytic model of polygyny that could be used cross-culturally to explain the existence of alternative forms of marriage in other areas of the world. This research is important because the understanding of how alternative marriage forms work in relation to the distribution of resources between men and women will help us understand how to design programs to strengthen the family and maintain it as the primary unit of socialization. This can have implications for divorce and childrearing as well as for the transmission of STDs.