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1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-248) and index. |
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"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 |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
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 Bangangté: 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 Bangangté. |
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Women, Ngangte -- Ethnic identity.
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Women, Ngangte -- Psychology.
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Women, Ngangte -- Health and hygiene.
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Fertility, Human -- Cameroon -- Bangangté (Kingdom)
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Human reproduction -- Cameroon -- Bangangté (Kingdom)
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Bangangté (Kingdom) -- Population.
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Bangangté (Kingdom) -- Social life and customs.
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Ethnology.
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Infertility, Female -- ethnology.
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Infertility, Female -- psychology.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Women -- psychology.
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Cameroon.
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Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
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Fertility, Human. (OCoLC)fst00923157
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Human reproduction. (OCoLC)fst00963221
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Population. (OCoLC)fst01071476
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Africa -- Bangangté (Kingdom)
(OCoLC)fst01292050
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela, 1958- Plundered kitchens, empty wombs. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999 (DLC) 98051223 (OCoLC)40403653 |
| ISBN |
9780472904259 (electronic book) |
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0472904256 (electronic book) |
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