Grains from grass : aging, gender, and famine in rural Africa

Grains from grass aging, gender, and famine in rural Africa

Aging in the non-western world -- Getting down in the valley -- The space and time of vulnerability -- Making a village-style living -- Mother's keepers, father's wives, and residential arrangements of the old -- Ancestors, rituals, and manipulating the spirit world -- Migration and family...

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1. Verfasser: Cliggett, Lisa (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, N.Y. u.a. Cornell Univ. Press 2005
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Tonga (Zambezi people) > Social conditions > Social networks > Rural elderly > Sex role > Food supply > Ethnology > Tonga (Zambesi people) > Zambia > Gwembe District (Zambia) > Rural conditions > Sambia > Tsonga > Distrikt Gwembe > Ländlicher Raum > Sozialordnung > Geschlechterrolle
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Zusammenfassung:Aging in the non-western world -- Getting down in the valley -- The space and time of vulnerability -- Making a village-style living -- Mother's keepers, father's wives, and residential arrangements of the old -- Ancestors, rituals, and manipulating the spirit world -- Migration and family ties over distance and time -- Getting by "just like that."
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index
Beschreibung:XVII, 193 S.
Ill., Kt.
23 cm
ISBN:0801472830
0-8014-7283-0
0801443660
0-8014-4366-0
9780801443664
978-0-8014-4366-4
9780801472831
978-0-8014-7283-1