ABSTRACT
THE rules of Ibo exogamy mean, as we now see, that whereas a man lives and dies an inhabitant of his native village a woman spends her childhood in the village where she was born and her adult life in the village of her husband. This double charter of residence, the having of a foot in two camps, is reflected clearly in the organisation of the women, which is both of an intra-village and an inter-village character with important results for Ibo social life.
