Title: Plundered kitchens, empty wombs
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Ethnic identity, Fertility, Human, Health and hygiene, Human Fertility, Human reproduction, Ngangte Women, Population, Psychology, Social life and customs, Women, Ngangte, Cameroon, history, Women, africa, Food supply, Agriculture, economic aspects, africa
Places: Bangangté (Kingdom), Cameroon
LC classification: DT571.N43 F45 1999