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Have Jola Women Found a Way to Resist Patriarchy with Commodities? (Senegal, West Africa)
Author(s) -
Lambert Michael C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
polar: political and legal anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.529
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1555-2934
pISSN - 1081-6976
DOI - 10.1525/pol.1999.22.1.85
Subject(s) - patriarchy , chapel , politics , citation , sociology , history , gender studies , law , political science , art history
I remember a Jola work song recorded during the cultivation of the peanut fields. It was about a man who lamented that all the young women had gone to the city. The lyrics, as I remember them now, focused on a young woman, who, the singer complained, was absorbed by her appearance. She had gone to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, to work as a domestic so that she would have the money to buy clothes and cosmetics.