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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Claudia Roth’s Work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso
Willemijn de Jong
PART I: ETHNOGRAPHY AND REFLEXIVITY
Chapter 1. Culture Shock, Power and Knowledge: Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork
PART II: NEGOTIATING LOVE AND MARRIAGE
Chapter 2. Beware When the Women of Bobo Dress Up!: An Ethnographic Contribution
Chapter 3. “What is Love?”: Changing Matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso – A Case Study
Chapter 4. Social Security and Gender: Marital Crisis as a Mirror of the Economic Crisis
PART III: ELDERLY PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN: SHARING OR LIVING IN POVERTY
Chapter 5. Blood Ties as a Social Network: The African Extended Family as an Economic Association
Chapter 6. The Invisible Impoverishment of the Elderly in Bobo-Dioulasso
Chapter 7. 'Shameful': The Inverted Intergenerational Contract in Bobo-Dioulasso
Chapter 8. The Strength of Badenya Ties: Siblings and Social Security in Old Age – The Case of Urban Burkina Faso
PART IV: YOUTH: DREAMS AND HARDSHIPS
Chapter 9. Tea and Dreams: Men’s Generational Conflict in Bobo-Dioulasso
Chapter 10. Between Dreams of Grandeur and Pragmatism: Young People in Urban Burkina Faso
Publications of Claudia Roth
Index
Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
Claudia Roth
Edited by Willemijn de Jong, Manfred Perlik, Noemi Steuer, and Heinzpeter Znoj
208 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78533-376-7 Hb Published (March 2018)
eISBN 978-1-78533-377-4 eBook