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Sex and salvation : imagining the future in Madagascar / Jennifer Cole.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cole, Jennifer, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban youth--Madagascar--Social conditions--21st century.
- Urban youth.
- Sex customs--Madagascar.
- Sex customs.
- Women--Madagascar--Social conditions--21st century.
- Women.
- Madagascar--Social conditions--21st century.
- Madagascar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As much of the intense political and social changes in Madagascar revolve around urban youth, who view themselves as avatars of modernity, this book argues that traditional social science offers inadequate theorizations of generational change and its contribution to broader cultural historical processes.
- Contents:
- Imagining the future: theorizing generational and historical change
- Making modern life in Tamatave: shifting paths to social mobility
- Disembedding and the humiliation of poverty
- The changing social economy of the female life course
- Jeunes: the future in the present
- Finding Vazaha? Navigating the sexual economy
- Other futures: women, suffering, and pentecostalism
- How the future comes into the present.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613058140
- 9781283058148
- 1283058146
- 9780226113326
- 0226113329
- OCLC:
- 695993887
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