[PDF.85pq] Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa

Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa

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 | #334011 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2005-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.04 x.53 x6.10l,.65 | File type: PDF | 216 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By jenmemphis|Great read!| |"Grains from Grass is a rich and intimate exploration of what it means to be old and at the brink of survival in a poor rural community. Drawing on classic themes and methods of social anthropology, it provides a subtle account of sociocultural change."―Alex

In her ethnography of the Gwembe Tonga people of rural Zambia, Lisa Cliggett explores what happens to kinship ties in times of famine. The Tonga, a matrilineal Bantu-speaking society, had long lived and farmed along the banks of the Zambezi River, but when the Kariba Dam was completed and the river valley was flooded in 1958, approximately 57,000 people were forcibly relocated. All of southern Africa has suffered from severe droughts in the last three decades, and the Gw...

You easily download any file type for your device.Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa   |  Lisa Cliggett. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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