TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Women on the market: Marriage, consumption, and the Internet in urban Cameroon
JO  - American ethnologist
A1  - Johnson‐Hanks, Jennifer
SP  - 642
EP  - 658
VL  - 34
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 0094-0496
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.642
ID  - ref1
ER  -