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1 online resource (xx, 396 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999
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Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index. |
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. |
Summary |
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 views aging as continge. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Birth control -- Gambia.
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Birth control. |
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Gambia. |
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Family size -- Gambia.
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Family size. |
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Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Gambia.
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Fertility, Human -- Social aspects. |
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Fertility, Human. |
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Reproduction. |
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Family Planning Services. |
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Gambia. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Banja, Fatoumatta.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bledsoe, Caroline H. Contingent lives. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 0226058514 (DLC) 2001051050 (OCoLC)47990011 |
ISBN |
9780226058504 (electronic book) |
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0226058506 (electronic book) |
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0226058514 |
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9780226058511 |
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0226058522 |
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9780226058528 |
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