Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts
Erdmute Alber · Sjaak van der Geest · Susan Reynolds Whyte
Jan 2008 · Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung Book 33 · LIT Verlag Münster
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Though long neglected in anthropological research, the connections and conflicts between generations are at the heart of social processes. In this book, sixteen studies examine relations between generations of kin and between historical and political generations. The topics range from grandmother's cooking, migrant remittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy, Valentine's Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religious virtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint, and the meaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate and expand the old anthropological interest in generation, showing how necessary it is to understanding contemporary African societies.
About the author
Erdmute Alber is a professor for social anthropology at the University of Bayreuth.
Susan R. Whyte is a professor in the department of anthropology at the Univeristy of Copenhagen.
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