Rethinking age in Africa : colonial, post-colonial, and contemporary interpretations of cultural representations / edited By Mario I. Aguilar.

Other author Aguilar, Mario I.
Format Book
Publication InfoTrenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 322 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: The present and the past of age notions within historical anthropology : the status quaestionis / Mario I. Aguilar -- Where one sleeps matters : Fipa markers of cultural growth in Tanzania / Kathleen R. Smythe -- Mobility and discipline : colonial age discourse in Tanzania / Thomas Burgess -- 'Have you heard the words of the elders?' : senior Bamana women's adaptations to culture change in rural Mali / Julianne E. Freeman -- Gender, age and power : hierarchy and liminality among Abaluyia women of Kenya / Maria G. Cattell -- 'Treat your elders with kindness and respect' : cultural constructions of age among middle class Cairene Egyptians / Bahira Sherif -- Perceptions of age : conviction, contest and controversy in Sidama / Seyoum Hameso -- Changing roles of the Igbo elderly : a response to Nigerian modernization / Stella Herzog -- Ancestrality and age conflicts in Black- African societies / Theophilos Rifiotis -- Genealogy and the artist's archive : strategies of autobiography and documentation in the work of a South African artist / Jennifer Law -- Age, art and cosmology : narratives of self and society in the work of Cuthy Mede / Laurel Birch de Aguilar -- Rethinking age and the culture of the young pastoralist in Garba Tulla, Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006014904
ISBN1592214940 (hard cover)
ISBN1592214959 (pbk.)
ISBN1592214967 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks GN645 .R48 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold