Contingent Lives
Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa
With contributions by Fatouneatta Banja
416 pages, 21 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9
©
2002
Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series
Cloth $81.00
ISBN: 9780226058511
Published July 2002
Paper $26.00
ISBN: 9780226058528
Published July 2002
Foreword
Anthony T. Carter
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction
3. Setting, Data, and Methods
4. Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing
5. Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing
6. Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body
7. Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging
8. Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion
9. Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations
10. Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging
Appendixes
Glossary
References
Index
Awards
- Amaury Talbot Prize
- Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
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