Book
Grains from grass: aging, gender, and famine in rural Africa
Cornell University Press • Ithaca, N.Y. • Published In 2005 • Pages:
By: Cliggett, Lisa.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Southern Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field Date
- 1994-1995
- Coverage Date
- 1950-2004
- Coverage Place
- Lake Kariba basin, middle Zambezi river valley: eastern Southern province, Zambia; northern Matabeland North and Mashonaland West provinces, Zimbabwe
- Notes
- Lisa Cliggett
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index)
- LCCN
- 2005016052
- LCSH
- 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