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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785409903321

Autore

Cole Jennifer <1966->

Titolo

Sex and salvation [[electronic resource] ] : imagining the future in Madagascar / / Jennifer Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-05814-6

9786613058140

0-226-11332-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

306.70835/09691091732

Soggetti

Urban youth - Madagascar - Social conditions - 21st century

Sex customs - Madagascar

Women - Madagascar - Social conditions - 21st century

Madagascar Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Imagining the future: theorizing generational and historical change -- Making modern life in Tamatave: shifting paths to social mobility -- Disembedding and the humiliation of poverty -- The changing social economy of the female life course -- Jeunes: the future in the present -- Finding Vazaha? Navigating the sexual economy -- Other futures: women, suffering, and pentecostalism -- How the future comes into the present.

Sommario/riassunto

As much of the intense political and social changes in Madagascar revolve around urban youth, who view themselves as avatars of modernity, this book argues that traditional social science offers inadequate theorizations of generational change and its contribution to broader cultural historical processes.