Book
Grains from grass: aging, gender, and famine in rural Africa
Cornell University Press • Ithaca, N.y. • Published In 2005 • Pages:
By: Cliggett, Lisa.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book examines how food scarcity has differential impact on people by age and gender, with elderly widows suffering the most. Although the Tonga are a matrilineal society, production is in the hands of male household heads who control bridewealth (cattle), farming tools, family labor, the distribution of produce. Women are unable to mobilize family labor or accumulate wealth for old age security. They are dependent on the good graces of their married sons, invoking kin and moral obligations for their support, especially during times of food shortage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Gift giving
- Accumulation of wealth
- Gender status
- Etiquette
- Household
- Polygamy
- Lineages
- Disasters
- Sorcery
- Status and treatment of the aged
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tonga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1994-1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-2004
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake Kariba basin, middle Zambezi river valley: eastern Southern province, Zambia; northern Matabeland North and Mashonaland West provinces, Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lisa Cliggett
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2005016052
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonga (Zambezi people)--Zambia--Gwembe District--Social conditions
- Tonga (Zambezi people)--Social networks--ambia--Gwembe District
- Rural elderly--Zambia--Gwembe District
- Sex role--Zambia--Gwembe District
- Food supply--Zambia--Gwembe District
- Ethnology--Zambia--Gwembe District
- Gwembe District (Zambia)--Rural conditions