In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life-a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS.
"Love in Africa" seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it....
In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the Unit...
"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar s economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. Just as many Westerners believe that young people break with the past as they enter adulthood, Malagasy citizens fear that these women have severed the connection to their history and culture. Jennifer Cole s elegant analysis shows how this notion of generational change is both wrong...
"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar s economic liberalizati...
Sex and Salvation chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar s economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. Just as many Westerners believe that young people break with the past as they enter adulthood, Malagasy citizens fear that these women have severed the connection to their history and culture. Jennifer Cole s elegant analysis shows how this notion of generational change is both...
Sex and Salvation chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar s economic liberal...
Everybody lives to win at something in life. A goal or dream requires paying the full price to win. Whether in relationships, self improvement or business, we all need a road map to success. From Here To There provides a live culture of wisdom with real life illustrations from the author and 12 guiding principles which will help GPS you to your destination of goals, dreams and success.
Everybody lives to win at something in life. A goal or dream requires paying the full price to win. Whether in relationships, self improvement or busi...
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary life. Affective Circuits brings together essays by an international group of well-known anthropologists to place the migrant family front and center. Moving between Africa and Europe, the book explores the many ways migrants sustain and rework family ties and intimate relationships at home...
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border cont...
