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BL
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1034556
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b788926
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| Main Entry
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Bledsoe, Caroline H.
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| Title & Author
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Contingent lives : : fertility, time, and aging in West Africa /\ Caroline H. Bledsoe with contributions by Fatoumatta Banja ; foreword by Anthony T. Carter.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2002.
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| Series Statement
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The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ;; 1999
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1 online resource (xx, 396 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0226058506
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: 6612932821
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: 9780226058504
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: 9786612932823
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0226058514
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0226058522
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9780226058511
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9780226058528
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction; 3. Setting, Data, and Methods; 4. Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing; 5. Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing; 6. Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body; 7. Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging; 8. Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion; 9. Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations; 10. Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging; Appendixes; Glossary.
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| Abstract
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Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason--to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as continge.
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Birth control-- Gambia.
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Family size-- Gambia.
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Fertility, Human-- Social aspects-- Gambia.
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Family Planning Services-- Gambia.
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Family Planning Services.
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Reproduction-- Gambia.
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Reproduction.
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Famille-- Dimension-- Gambie.
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Fécondité humaine-- Aspect social-- Gambie.
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Régulation des naissances-- Gambie.
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Birth control.
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Family size.
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Fertility, Human-- Social aspects.
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Geburtenregelung
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Abortion Birth Control.
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Society.
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Anticonceptie.
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Gezinsgrootte.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Vruchtbaarheid.
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Gambia.
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Gambia
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Gambia.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.9/6/096651
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| LC Classification
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HQ766.5.G25B54 2002eb
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2002 G-987
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WQ 205B646c 2002
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73.43bcl
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LB 43525rvk
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LB 44525rvk
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MS 4150rvk
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| Added Entry
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Banja, Fatoumatta.
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