Plundered kitchens, empty wombs
Subtitle: threatened reproduction and identity in the Cameroon grassfields
By: Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Women, Ngangte -- Ethnic identity.; Women, Ngangte -- Psychology.; Women, Ngangte -- Health and hygiene.; Fertility, Human -- Cameroon -- Bangangté (Kingdom); Human reproduction -- Cameroon -- Bangangté (Kingdom); Bangangté (Kingdom) -- Population.; Bangangté (Kingdom) -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility to illuminate the dynamics of social and cultural disintegration in a small, mountainous African kingdom."--BOOK JACKET.

"In the Cameroon grassfields, an area of high fertility, women hold a paradoxical fear of infertility. By combining symbolic, political-economic, and historical analyses, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg traces the way reproductive threat is invoked in struggles over gender and ethnic identities."--BOOK JACKET.

"Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs should appeal to a broad audience in medical anthropology, public health, African studies, and women's studies as well as to development planners and population scientists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-248) and index.