African Encounters with Domesticity

by Karen Tranberg Hansen

Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated with the sense of space, work, gender, and power. The contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examine how indigenous African notions of domesticity interact with Western notions to transform the meaning of such activities. They explore the interactions of notions of domesticity in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813518040
• ISBN13: 9780813518046
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.