ISBN:
9780226058528
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (417 p)
Series Statement:
Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Contingent Lives : Fertility, Time and Aging in West Africa
DDC:
304.632096651
Keywords:
Birth control ; Gambia
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Family size ; Gambia
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Fertility, Human ; Social aspects ; Gambia
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason-to have as many children as possible.Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that view
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction; 3. Setting, Data, and Methods; 4. Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing; 5. Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing; 6. Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body; 7. Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging; 8. Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion; 9. Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations; 10. Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging; Appendixes; Glossary
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Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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