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

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

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Author/Contributor(s): Cliggett, Lisa
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date: 11/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW

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...