| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 396 pages) : illustrations |
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The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999 |
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Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Birth control -- Gambia
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Family size -- Gambia
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Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Gambia
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Family planning services.
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Family Planning Services
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Reproduction
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Abortion & Birth Control.
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Society.
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Family planning services
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Birth control
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Family size
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Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
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Geburtenregelung
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Anticonceptie.
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Vruchtbaarheid.
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Gezinsgrootte.
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Sociale aspecten.
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| SUBJECT |
Gambia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005714 |
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Gambia
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Gambia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Banja, Fatoumatta
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| ISBN |
9780226058504 |
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0226058506 |
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9786612932823 |
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6612932821 |
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1282932829 |
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9781282932821 |
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