Contingent lives : fertility, time, and aging in West Africa /

Contingent lives : fertility, time, and aging in West Africa /

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Author / Creator:Bledsoe, Caroline H.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xx, 396 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999
Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999.
Subject:
Birth control -- Gambia.
Family size -- Gambia.
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Gambia.
Family Planning Services -- Gambia.
Reproduction -- Gambia.
Reproduction.
Family Planning Services.
Birth control.
Family size.
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects.
Gambia.
Gambia.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11233987
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Other authors / contributors:Banja, Fatoumatta.
ISBN:9780226058504
0226058506
0226058514
9780226058511
0226058522
9780226058528
9786612932823
6612932821
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.
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English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Bledsoe, Caroline H. Contingent lives. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 0226058514

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