Generations in Africa

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Generations in Africa is written by Erdmute Alber and published by LIT Verlag Münster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3825807150 (ISBN 10) and 9783825807153 (ISBN 13).

Though long neglected in anthropological research, the connections and conflicts between generations are at the heart of social processes. In this book, sixteen studies examine relations between generations of kin and between historical and political generations. The topics range from grandmother's cooking, migrant remittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy, Valentine's Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religious virtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint, and the meaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate and expand the old anthropological interest in generation, showing how necessary it is to understanding contemporary African societies.