Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs : Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands / / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

• Autore: Feldman-Savelsberg Pamela <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 1999; ©1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations
• Soggetto topico: Fertilite humaine - Cameroun - Maham; Femmes - Cameroun - Sante et hygiene; Population; Manners and customs; Human reproduction; Fertility, Human; Ethnology; Women - psychology; Anthropology, Cultural; Infertility, Female - psychology; Infertility, Female - ethnology; Human reproduction - Cameroon - Bangangte (Kingdom); Fertility, Human - Cameroon - Bangangte (Kingdom); Women, Ngangte - Health and hygiene; Women, Ngangte - Psychology; Women, Ngangte - Ethnic identity
• Soggetto geografico: Bangangte; Kamerun; Africa Bangangte (Kingdom); Cameroon; Bangangte (Kingdom) Social life and customs; Bangangte (Kingdom) Population
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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."--Jacket
• Titolo autorizzato: Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs
• ISBN: 0-472-90425-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910735592603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II