Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs : Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands

"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 paradoxi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela, 1958- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 1999.
Materias:
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.
Bangangte
Kamerun
Africa > Bangangte (Kingdom)
Cameroon
Bangangte (Kingdom) > Social life and customs.
Bangangte (Kingdom) > Population.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009757121206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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