| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Celebrating home and family unity : the 2016 Yob Homecoming Festival -- Remembering the ancestors : family anecdotes, "quarrel stories," and migration and settlement narratives -- Constructing an ancestral heritage : the first literate family member's politics of memory -- Keeping the home fires burning : labor migration, heroic tales, and mocking songs -- Creating a new order : Christian models of family life -- Social mobility and moral obligations : remembering educational trajectories -- Urban nostalgia for ancestral traditions : new genres of family memory -- Making a good name for the family : funerals, memory, and public prestige -- Stemming the tide of dispersal : the young generation's understandings of family and memory practices -- Unfinished business : remembering for the future |
| Summary |
"What keeps a family together? In Imagining Futures, authors Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Members of this extended family, like many others in the region, find themselves living increasingly farther apart and working in diverse occupations ranging from religious clergy and civil service to farming. What keeps them together as a family? In their groundbreaking work, Lentz and Lobnibe argue that shared memories, rather than only material interests, bind a family together. Imagining Futures explores the changing practices of remembering in an African family and offers a unique contribution to the growing field of memory studies, beyond the usual focus of Europe and America. Lentz and Lobnibe explore how, in an increasingly globalized, postcolonial world, memories themselves are not static accounts of past events but are actually malleable and shaped by both current concerns and imagined futures"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 10, 2023) |
| Subject |
Families -- Africa, West
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Extended families -- Africa, West
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Africa, West
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
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Extended families.
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Families.
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Manners and customs.
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Memory -- Social aspects.
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Africa, West -- Social life and customs
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West Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lobnibe, Isidore, author.
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| LC no. |
2021059805 |
| ISBN |
9780253060181 |
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0253060184 |
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9780253060198 |
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0253060192 |
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