Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs : Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg.
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- Fertilite humaine -- Cameroun -- Maham
- Femmes -- Cameroun -- Sante et hygiene
- Sociale status
- Voortplanting (biologie)
- Vrouwen
- Bangangte
- Population
- Manners and customs
- Human reproduction
- Fertility, Human
- Ethnology
- Ethnologie
- Reproduction humaine -- Cameroun -- Maham
- Fecondite humaine -- Cameroun -- Maham
- Femmes bangangte -- Sante et hygiene
- Femmes bangangte -- Psychologie
- Femmes bangangte -- Identite ethnique
- Women -- psychology
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Infertility, Female -- psychology
- Infertility, Female -- ethnology
- 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)
- Maham (Cameroun) -- Moeurs et coutumes
- Maham (Cameroun) -- Population
- Cameroon
- Bangangte (Kingdom) -- Social life and customs
- Bangangte (Kingdom) -- Population
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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"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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