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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.