Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
1) Plundered kitchens, empty wombs: threstened reproduction and identity in the Cameroon grassfields
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
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...
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