Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
Published on 15. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-1-83695-694-5 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of "the African family" as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.
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Claudia Roth | Willemijn De Jong | Manfred Perlik
Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
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03/2018
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€24.49
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Persons
Claudia Roth (1955-2012) taught and conducted anthropological research at the Universities of Zurich, Bern, and Lucerne. She served on the board of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and was a member of the International Mande Studies Association (MANSA). Urban Dreams is the first collection of her work to appear in English.