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

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

Lisa Cliggett

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nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
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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,...

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