Episode 74: What’s the Deal with Matriarchies?

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  • Nancy Kankum Kusi, Frank Mintah, Valentine Nyame, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Menare Rotal Mabakeang, Barikisa Owusu Ansah and Walter Daschaga. 2022. ‘Discourse on Women and Land Tenure in Ghana: Does Matrilineal Land Tenure System Make a Difference for Women?’ in E.C. Chigbu (ed). Land Governance and Gender: The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy. 129-142.

  • Gerda Henkel. 2021. Matriarchy at the Crossroads in Africa: The Class Between its Theoretical and Practical Orientation in Tanzania’s Land Tenure Systems. African Journal on Land Policy and Geospacial Systems. 5 (1). 215-233

  • Rebecca Wragg Sykes. 2020. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

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  • Why Do Men Rule the World? Podcast with Dr. Alice Evans. Factually with Adam Conover. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-do-men-rule-the-world-with-dr-alice-evans/id1463460577?i=1000554933659

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