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Contingent lives : fertility, time, and aging in West Africa /
Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason--to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rura...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ;
1999. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason--to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as continge. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 396 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226058504 0226058506 9786612932823 6612932821 1282932829 9781282932821 |
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