Urban Dreams: Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
URBAN DREAMS -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Claudia Roth's Work in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso -- 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 Burkino 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