Contingent lives: Fertility, time, and aging in West Africa (Record no. 1309123)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780226058528 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Terms of availability | Textual |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | RTL |
| Transcribing agency | RTL |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Y:5:5(Y).658 P2 |
| Assigning agency | RTL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bledsoe, Caroline H. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Contingent lives: Fertility, time, and aging in West Africa |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Chicago |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | University of Chicago Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2002 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xx, 396 p. : ill. |
| Other physical details | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Lewis Henry Morgan lectures/1999 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | <br/>Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason - to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as contingent on the cumulative physical, social, and spiritual hardships of personal history, especially obstetric trauma. Viewing each of these two models from the perspective of the other, Caroline Bledsoe produces fresh understandings of the classical anthropological subjects of reproduction, time, and aging as culturally shaped within women's conjugal lives. Her insights will be welcomed by scholars of anthropology and demography as well as by those working in public health, development studies, gerontology, and the history of medicine.<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Birth control- Gambia |
| 9 (RLIN) | 752408 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Family size- Gambia |
| 9 (RLIN) | 752409 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Fertility, Human- Social aspects- gGambia |
| 9 (RLIN) | 752410 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Anthony T. Carter |
| 9 (RLIN) | 752411 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fatoumatta Banja |
| 9 (RLIN) | 752412 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Koha item type | Textbook |
| Classification part | Y:5:5(Y).658 P2 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | Ratan Tata Library | Ratan Tata Library | 2025-04-17 | Y:5:5(Y).658 P2 | RT1528355 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 | Textbook |