Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa

by Lisa Cliggett

In her ethnography of the Gwembe Tonga people of rural Zambia, Lisa Cliggett explores what happens to kinship ties in times of famine. The Tonga, a matrilineal Bantu-speaking society, had long lived and farmed along the banks of the Zambezi River, but when the Kariba Dam was completed and the river valley was flooded in 1958, approximately 57,000 people were forcibly relocated. All of southern Africa has suffered from severe droughts in the last...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443660
• ISBN13: 9780801443664
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher