Urban Dreams : : Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso /

Urban Dreams : : Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso / / ed. by Claudia Roth, Willemijn de Jong, Manfred Perlik, Noemi Steuer.

Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Jong, Willemijn de,
Roth, Claudia,
HerausgeberIn:
Jong, Willemijn de,
Perlik, Manfred,
Roth, Claudia,
Steuer, Noemi,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • Introduction. Claudia Roth’s Work in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
  • Part I. Ethnography and Reflexivity
  • Chapter 1. Culture Shock, Power and Knowledge: Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork
  • Part II. Negotiating Love and Marriage
  • Chapter 2. Beware When the Women of Bobo Dress Up! An Ethnographic Contribution
  • Chapter 3. ‘What is Love?’ Changing Matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso – A Case Study
  • Chapter 4. Social Security and Gender: Marital Crisis as a Mirror of the Economic Crisis
  • Part III. Elderly Parents and Their Children: Sharing or Living in Poverty
  • Chapter 5. Blood Ties as a Social Network: The African Extended Family as an Economic Association
  • Chapter 6. The Invisible Impoverishment of the Elderly in Bobo-Dioulasso
  • Chapter 7. ‘Shameful!’ The Inverted Intergenerational Contract in Bobo-Dioulasso
  • Chapter 8. The Strength of Badenya Ties: Siblings and Social Security in Old Age – the Case of Urban Burkina Faso
  • Part IV. Youth: Dreams and Hardships
  • Chapter 9. Tea and Dreams: Men’s Generational Conflict in Bobo-Dioulasso
  • Chapter 10. Between Dreams of Grandeur and Pragmatism: Young People in Urban Burkina Faso
  • Publications of Claudia Roth
  • Index

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