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Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa
Lisa Cliggett
Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa
Lisa Cliggett
In her ethnography of the Gwembe Tonga people of rural Zambia, Lisa Cliggett explores what happens to kinship ties in times of famine. The Tonga, a matrilineal Bantu-speaking society, had long lived and farmed along the banks of the Zambezi River, but...
224 pages, 9 tables, 10 halftones, 3 maps
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 15, 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9780801443664 |
Publishers | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 214 |
Dimensions | 235 × 154 × 18 mm · 417 g |