Plundered kitchens, empty wombs threatened reproduction and identity in the Cameroon grassfields
"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 paradoxic...
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Ann Arbor
The University of Michigan Press
1999, [1999]©1999
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-248) and index
- 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 Bangangté: 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
- Appendix. Kings of Bangangté