Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town

by Elisha P. Renne

Elisha Renne focuses on things associated with the human body -- such as houses, graves, hymens, blood, and bones -- as a concrete means for analyzing new ideas of fertility in an Ekiti Yoruba town in Southwestern Nigeria. By looking at how ideas about childbearing and family size are reassessed by individual and families, and underscoring their connection with local and national policies and programs, Renne argues that progress and fertility cannot...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472089838
• ISBN13: 9780472089833
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"