03971oam 22008174a 450 991073559260332120230929170622.00-472-90425-6(CKB)5680000000311812(MdBmJHUP)musev2_113375(EXLCZ)99568000000031181220101117d1999 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPlundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands /Pamela Feldman-SavelsbergAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,1999.©19991 online resourceillustrations0-472-10989-8 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 Bangangte: 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 Bangangte."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 paradoxical fear of infertility. By combining symbolic, political-economic, and historical analyses, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg traces the way reproductive threat is invoked in struggles over gender and ethnic identities." "Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs should appeal to a broad audience in medical anthropology, public health, African studies, and women's studies as well as to development planners and population scientists."--JacketFertilite humaineCamerounMahamramFemmesCamerounSante et hygieneramPopulationfast(OCoLC)fst01071476Manners and customsfast(OCoLC)fst01007815Human reproductionfast(OCoLC)fst00963221Fertility, Humanfast(OCoLC)fst00923157Ethnologyfast(OCoLC)fst00916106WomenpsychologyAnthropology, CulturalInfertility, FemalepsychologyInfertility, FemaleethnologyEthnologyHuman reproductionCameroonBangangte (Kingdom)Fertility, HumanCameroonBangangte (Kingdom)Women, NgangteHealth and hygieneWomen, NgangtePsychologyWomen, NgangteEthnic identityBangangtegndKamerungndAfricaBangangte (Kingdom)fastCameroonBangangte (Kingdom)Social life and customsBangangte (Kingdom)PopulationFertilite humaineFemmesSante et hygiene.Population.Manners and customs.Human reproduction.Fertility, Human.Ethnology.WomenpsychologyAnthropology, CulturalInfertility, FemalepsychologyInfertility, FemaleethnologyEthnology.Human reproductionFertility, HumanWomen, NgangteHealth and hygiene.Women, NgangtePsychology.Women, NgangteEthnic identity.Feldman-Savelsberg Pamela1958-918763MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910735592603321Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs3418997UNINA