Urban Dreams: Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso

ISBN 10: 1785333763 ISBN 13: 9781785333767

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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 various neighbourhoods, Roth's work calls into question established notions of "the African family" as a solidary network, documents changing marriage and kinship relations under the impact of a persistent economic crisis, and explores the increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Noemi Steuer is a researcher at the Center for African Studies, University of Basel.

Heinzpeter Znoj is Professor at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785333763
• ISBN 13: 9781785333767
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
• Herausgeber: Roth Claudia, Jong Willemijn De, Perlik Manfred
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