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Imagining futures : memory and belonging in an African family /
"What keeps a family together? In Imagining Futures, authors Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Members of this extended family, like many others in the region, f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Celebrating home and family unity : the 2016 Yob Homecoming Festival
- Remembering the ancestors : family anecdotes, "quarrel stories," and migration and settlement narratives
- Constructing an ancestral heritage : the first literate family member's politics of memory
- Keeping the home fires burning : labor migration, heroic tales, and mocking songs
- Creating a new order : Christian models of family life
- Social mobility and moral obligations : remembering educational trajectories
- Urban nostalgia for ancestral traditions : new genres of family memory
- Making a good name for the family : funerals, memory, and public prestige
- Stemming the tide of dispersal : the young generation's understandings of family and memory practices
- Unfinished business : remembering for the future.