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

Name: Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields
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ISBN: 9780472109890

ISBN-10: 0472109898

ISBN-13: 9780472109890

Edition: 1999

Authors: Pamela Lou Feldman-Savelsberg

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Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility in a small, mountainous African kingdom to explore more general notions of gender, modernity, and cultural identity. 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. Women's fears of reproductive disorders, she finds, are an important mode of expression for their worries about much larger issues, such as rural poverty, brought about or exacerbated by…

Book details

List price: $89.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 6/30/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.33" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Pronunciation Guide


Cast of Characters


Introduction: 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


Notes


Glossary


References


Index