
Generations in Africa
Connections and Conflicts
LIT (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published in April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-3-8258-0715-3 (ISBN)
Description
Though long neglected in anthropological research, the connections and conflicts between generations are at the heart of social processes. In this book, sixteen studies examine relations between generations of kin and between historical and political generations.
The topics range from grandmother's cooking, migrant remittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy, Valentine's Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religious virtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint, and the meaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate and expand the old anthropological interest in generation, showing how necessary it is to understanding contemporary African societies.
The topics range from grandmother's cooking, migrant remittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy, Valentine's Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religious virtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint, and the meaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate and expand the old anthropological interest in generation, showing how necessary it is to understanding contemporary African societies.
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Series
Edition
1., Aufl.
Language
English
Place of publication
Hamburg
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-8258-0715-3 (9783825807153)
Schweitzer Classification