Contingent Lives - Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa

ForewordAnthony T. CarterPreface1. Introduction2. Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction3. Setting, Data, and Methods4. Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing5. Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing6. Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body7. Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging8. Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion9. Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations10. Rethinking Fertility, Time, and AgingAppendixesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Zusammenfassung

Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it for the opposite reason, to have more children. This study of aging and reproduction makes use of ethnographic and demographic data.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Fatoumatta Banja, Caroline H. Bledsoe, Bledsoe Caroline H.
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780226058528
• ISBN: 978-0-226-05852-8
• Seiten: 416
• Abmessung: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Gewicht: 595 g
• Serien: Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series; Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (P; Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sozialstrukturforschung; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Gambia, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Population & demography, Population and Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, The Gambia