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Grains from grass : aging, gender, and famine in rural Africa
- Title
- Grains from grass : aging, gender, and famine in rural Africa / Lisa Cliggett.
- Author
- Cliggett, Lisa, 1965-
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 193 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cornell paperbacks
- Subject
- Tonga (Zambezi people) > Zambia > Gwembe District > Social conditions
- Tonga (Zambezi people) > Social networks > Zambia > Gwembe District
- Rural older people > Zambia > Gwembe District
- Sex role > Zambia > Gwembe District
- Food supply > Zambia > Gwembe District
- Ethnology > Zambia > Gwembe District
- Gwembe District (Zambia) > Rural conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.
- Contents
- Aging in the non-western world -- Getting down in the valley -- The space and time of vulnerability -- Making a village-style living -- Mother's keepers, father's wives, and residential arrangements of the old -- Ancestors, rituals, and manipulating the spirit world -- Migration and family ties over distance and time -- Getting by "just like that."
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-61
- ISBN
- 0801443660 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801472830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005016052
- 9780801443664
- 9780801472831
- OCLC
- 60603183
- Author
- Cliggett, Lisa, 1965-
- Title
- Grains from grass : aging, gender, and famine in rural Africa / Lisa Cliggett.
- Imprint
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
- Series
- Cornell paperbacks
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 97808014436649780801472831
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-61