Contingent Lives
Subtitle: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780226058528
Subjects: Anthropology; Ethnic studies; Population & demography; Social Science; Sociology; Sub-Saharan Africa; Abortion & Birth Control; Africa - General; Developing Countries; Social Science / Statistics; Anthropology - Cultural; Birth control; Family size; Fertility, Human; Gambia; Social aspects
First sentence: Kaddy Seesay, a thirty-year-old remarried divorcee, happened to fall into a sample of women interviewed every month for fifteen months, during a 1992-95 research project on contraception and birth intervals in rural Gambia.