Plundered kitchens, empty wombs : threatened reproduction and identity in the Cameroon grassfields /
"Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility to illuminate the dynamics of social and cultural disintegration in a small, mountainous African kingdom." "In the Cameroon grassfields, an area of high fertility, women hold a paradoxi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fertility and the politics of identity in Cameroon
- The short-lived marriage of a king's wife : Paulette's "plugged fertility" and blocked mobility
- Being Bangangté: social organization and identity
- Cooking inside : the symbolic construction of gender, marriage and fertility
- The kitchen plundered : fear of infertility
- Seeking remedies : medical pluralism and the distribution of fear
- "Then we were many" : the search for vitality in a changing context
- Kings of Bangangté.