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Urban dreams, transformations of family life in Burkina Faso / chapters by Claudia Roth ; edited by Willemijn de Jong, Manfred Perlik, Noemi Steuer and Heinzpeter Znoj.
Penn Museum Library HT384.B922 B637 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roth, Claudia, 1955-2012, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Burkina Faso--Bobo-Dioulasso.
- City and town life.
- Sociology, Urban--Burkina Faso--Bobo-Dioulasso.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Families--Burkina Faso--Bobo-Dioulasso.
- Families.
- Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)--Social conditions.
- Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso).
- Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)--Economic conditions.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- Burkina Faso--Bobo-Dioulasso.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 198 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Some articles originally published in German or French, now translated into English.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso / Willemijn de Jong
- Culture shock, power and knowledge : negotiating boundaries in ethnographic fieldwork
- Beware when the women of Bobo dress up! : an ethnographic contribution
- "What is love?" : changing matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso : a case study
- Social security and gender : marital crisis as a mirror of the economic crisis
- Blood ties as a social network : the African extended family as an economic association
- The invisible impoverishment of the elderly in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- "Shameful!" : the inverted intergenerational contract in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- The strength of Badenya ties : siblings and social security in old age : the case of urban Burkina Faso
- Tea and dreams : men's generational conflict in Bobo-Dioulasso
- Between dreams of grandeur and pragmatism : young people in urban Burkina Faso.
- Notes:
- "Chapters 1-5 and 9 were translated by Steven Parham. Chapters 6 and 10 were translated by Vanessa Brutsche. Chapters 7 and 8 were originally published in English."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Roth, Claudia, 1955-2012. Transformations of family life in Burkina Faso.
- ISBN:
- 9781785333767
- 1785333763
- OCLC:
- 1015259579
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