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Erdmute Alber, Sjaak van der Geest,Susan Reynolds Whyte (edsj

Generationsin AfricaConnections and Confiicts

Beitrage zur AfrikaforschungISSN 0938-7285

Herausgegeben vom Institutfür Afrika-Studiën

in Verbindung mit demKulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungskolleg SFB/FK 560

„Lokales Handeln in Afrika im Kontext globaler Einflüsse "der Universiteit Bayreuth

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Generations in AfricaConnections and Conflicts

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Erdmute Alber, Sjaak van der Geestand Susan Reynolds Whyte

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CONTENTS

SIIMIII Reynolds Whyte, Erdmute Alber, Sjaak van der Geest

(iriiiTiilional connections and conflicts in Africa: an introduction

RECIPROCITY

D/n'itl KyaddondoKrspecl and autonomy:( h i ld i vu 's money in eastern Uganda

( liiiiiliti Roth

'Shameful! ' The inverted intergenerational contractin Iloho-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

/','/•/( -k Olieno Nyambedha

Sliiiring food: grandmothers and 'the children of today'in wi-.slern Kenya

\'tilt'iilina Mazzucato

Triinsiialionalreciprocity: Ghanaian migrantsi i i u i the care of their parents back home

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PAST AND PRESENT

(ii'ilnid Boden

" l ' lu 1 young people do what they want'; negotiating

mliTgenerational relationships among the Khwe of Namibia

Kuilt l'rince

Slni^gl ing for growth in western Kenya:ii ioi leni i ty, tradition, generation and gender

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Ria ReisInventing a generation: the revitalisation of umcwashoin Swaziland in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis

Els van Dongen'That was your time ... this time is ours!'Memories and intergenerational conflicts in South Africa

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Mt'ilc l.inc Kiiif>.\lc<l( 'oll isions in life-courses: teenage motherhood and

relations in north-east Tanzania

S/mik van der GeestWisdom, an intergenerational gift?Nok-s Irom Kwahu-Tafo, Ghana

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POLITICS

Pierre-Yves Le MeurBetween emancipation and patronage:changing intergenerational relationships in central Benin

Alice BellagambaToday's elders, yesterday's youth:generations and politics in the 20th century Gambia

Mïchael BourdillonChildren and supporting adults in child-led organisations

Koen StroekenTanzania's 'new generation':the power and tragedy of a concept

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l.i\i of contributorsSul >/cct index/m/cv ofuuthors

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VIRTUE

Data DeaChanging youth religiosity in Ethiopia:a generational perspective

Astrid BochowValentine's Day in Ghana:youth, sex and secrets

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Though long neglected in anthropological research, theconnections and conflicts between generations are at theheart of social processes. In this .book, sixteen studiesexamine relations between generations of kin and betweenhistorical and political generations.The topics range from grandmother's cooking, migrantremittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy,Valentine's Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religiousvirtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint, and themeaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate andexpand the old anthropological interest in generation,showing how necessary it is to understanding contempo-rary African societies.

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