Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa by Caroline H. Bledsoe

Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa

Caroline H. Bledsoe

396 pages paperback

3 editions

nonfiction sociology
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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 tha...

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