Grains from grass
Subtitle: aging, gender, and famine in rural Africa
By: Lisa Cliggett.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780801443664; 9780801472831
Subjects: Tonga (Zambesi people) -- Zambia -- Gwembe District -- Social conditions; Tonga (Zambesi people) -- Social networks -- Zambia -- Gwembe District; Rural elderly -- Zambia -- Gwembe District; Sex role -- Zambia -- Gwembe District; Food supply -- Zambia -- Gwembe District; Ethnology -- Zambia -- Gwembe District; Gwembe District (Zambia) -- Rural conditions
Description: In her ethnography of the Gwembe Tonga people of rural Zambia, Lisa Cliggett explores what happens to kinship ties in times of famine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aging in the non-western world; title: Getting down in the valley; title: The space and time of vulnerability; title: Making a village-style living; title: Mother's keepers, father's wives, and residential arrangements of the old; title: Ancestors, rituals, and manipulating the spirit world; title: Migration and family ties over distance and time; title: Getting by "just like that."