P Feldman-Savelsberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 52311 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P Feldman-Savelsberg |
| PRENOMES | P |
| SOBRENOME | Feldman-Savelsberg |
| ASSINATURA | FELDMAN-SAVELSBERG P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Carleton College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1624-8652 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Time-Space Relations of Mothering in African Diasporas
Contesting parenting expertise
Parenting is socially constructed via interpersonal encounters, experiences, and narratives circulated among parenting interlocutors who act simultaneously as experts in and audiences for parenting practices. This contribution addresses the changing and contested nature of parenting expertise in Cameroonian Berlin, exploring how kin, friends, and pedagogical, social service, and medical personnel construct contrasting views of what "good" parenti…
Afterword to mothering practices in times of legal precarity
This Afterword to the special issue “Mothering Practices in Times of Legal Precarity: Activism, Care, and Resistance in Displacement” relates the authors’ findings regarding how displaced women adapt their mothering practices to the uncertain legal situations in which they live to key terms in ethnic and racial studies. For each of these key terms—mothering, practices, time, and legal precarity—we learn how the authors and the actors they study c…
Avoiding Hardship, Deflecting Conflict
In 1982, Esther Goody demonstrated the importance of child fostering for social reproduction. Why, in the 2010s and 2020s, does the idea of child fostering remain a valorized expression of “African solidarity” when so many Bamiléké simultaneously retreat—even recoil—from engaging in this practice? Bamiléké parents replace fostering, once praised for promoting resilience, with concerted cultivation. This contribution explores how changes in kinshi…
National Identity and State Formation in Africa
Strange expectations
When Cameroonian women migrate to Germany, they expect a different obstetric experience than they would have met in Cameroon. They bemoan the loss of family support, but do not yearn for village midwives. These largely urban, educated women expect better and more easily accessible medical care, free of the shortages and corruption plaguing Cameroon's public health system. Their expectations-that bearing children is medically easier but socially h…
Mothers on the Move
Anthropological Perspectives on Care
Urbanites and urban villagers
Most work on the political implications of hometown associations has focused on male elites. This contribution attends instead to the gendered varieties of hometown associations, exploring variations in the bases of shared identity among six Bamiléké women's hometown associations – hailing from Ndé Division, Western Province, and organized in both elite and neighbourhood-based non-elite associations – in Yaoundé, Cameroon. It suggests several way…
Uncertain honor
Remembering 'The Troubles
The 'time of troubles', a period of a radical nationalist movement (the UPC) and state reprisals sometimes called the Bamileke Rebellion, rocked Cameroon during the years surrounding its Independence in 1960. At the time, Bamileke women related their political and economic tribulations to numerous reproductive difficulties. They continue to do so today, linking perceived threats to their ethnic distinctiveness and survival to a sense of reproduct…
Sterilizing Vaccines or the Politics of the Womb
In 1990 a rumor that public health workers were administering a vaccine to sterilize girls and women spread throughout Cameroon. Schoolgirls leapt from windows to escape the vaccination teams, and the vaccination campaign (part of the Year of Universal Child Immunization) was aborted. This article traces the origin and development of this rumor. Theories of rumor and ambiguous cultural response to new technologies shed some light on its genesis a…
Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs
Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility in a small, mountainous African kingdom to explore more general notions of gender, modernity, and cultural identity. In the Cameroon grassfields, an area of high fertility, women hold a paradoxical fear of infertility. By combining symbolic, political-economic, and historical analyses, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg traces the way reproductive threat is …
Alimentations, traditions et développements en Afrlque intertroplcale
Alimentations, traditions et développements en Afrlque intertroplcale. RENE DEVISCH, FILIP DE BOECK, and DANIELLE JONCKERS, eds. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1995. 303 pp., contributors, notes, bibliography
Sahel Visions
Les frontières du mal
Cooking Inside
In this article I analyze the ways in which Bangangté ideas about marriage and procreation reveal the gendered experience of kinship. In Bangangté kinship ideology, notions of procreative cooking are central to representing the sometimes conflicting demands of double descent. Kitchens, cooking, and commensality are simultaneously the basis of marriage-enclosing the wife within the husband's patrilineage-and the maintenance of matrilineal ties. Cu…
Plundered kitchens and empty wombs
Civilized Women
Sante et Population en Senegambie des Origines a 1960
Sterilizing Vaccines or the Politics of the Womb
In 1990 a rumor that public health workers were administering a vaccine to sterilize girls and women spread throughout Cameroon. Schoolgirls leapt from windows to escape the vaccination teams, and the vaccination campaign (part of the Year of Universal Child Immunization) was aborted. This article traces the origin and development of this rumor. Theories of rumor and ambiguous cultural response to new technologies shed some light on its genesis a…
Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs
Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility in a small, mountainous African kingdom to explore more general notions of gender, modernity, and cultural identity. In the Cameroon grassfields, an area of high fertility, women hold a paradoxical fear of infertility. By combining symbolic, political-economic, and historical analyses, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg traces the way reproductive threat is …
Plundered kitchens and empty wombs
Cooking Inside
In this article I analyze the ways in which Bangangté ideas about marriage and procreation reveal the gendered experience of kinship. In Bangangté kinship ideology, notions of procreative cooking are central to representing the sometimes conflicting demands of double descent. Kitchens, cooking, and commensality are simultaneously the basis of marriage-enclosing the wife within the husband's patrilineage-and the maintenance of matrilineal ties. Cu…
Urbanites and urban villagers
Most work on the political implications of hometown associations has focused on male elites. This contribution attends instead to the gendered varieties of hometown associations, exploring variations in the bases of shared identity among six Bamiléké women's hometown associations – hailing from Ndé Division, Western Province, and organized in both elite and neighbourhood-based non-elite associations – in Yaoundé, Cameroon. It suggests several way…
Contesting parenting expertise
Parenting is socially constructed via interpersonal encounters, experiences, and narratives circulated among parenting interlocutors who act simultaneously as experts in and audiences for parenting practices. This contribution addresses the changing and contested nature of parenting expertise in Cameroonian Berlin, exploring how kin, friends, and pedagogical, social service, and medical personnel construct contrasting views of what "good" parenti…
Remembering 'The Troubles
The 'time of troubles', a period of a radical nationalist movement (the UPC) and state reprisals sometimes called the Bamileke Rebellion, rocked Cameroon during the years surrounding its Independence in 1960. At the time, Bamileke women related their political and economic tribulations to numerous reproductive difficulties. They continue to do so today, linking perceived threats to their ethnic distinctiveness and survival to a sense of reproduct…
National Identity and State Formation in Africa
Civilized Women
Sante et Population en Senegambie des Origines a 1960
Civilized Women
Plundered kitchens and empty wombs
Les frontières du mal
Cooking Inside
In this article I analyze the ways in which Bangangté ideas about marriage and procreation reveal the gendered experience of kinship. In Bangangté kinship ideology, notions of procreative cooking are central to representing the sometimes conflicting demands of double descent. Kitchens, cooking, and commensality are simultaneously the basis of marriage-enclosing the wife within the husband's patrilineage-and the maintenance of matrilineal ties. Cu…
Sahel Visions
Alimentations, traditions et développements en Afrlque intertroplcale
Alimentations, traditions et développements en Afrlque intertroplcale. RENE DEVISCH, FILIP DE BOECK, and DANIELLE JONCKERS, eds. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1995. 303 pp., contributors, notes, bibliography
Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs
Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility in a small, mountainous African kingdom to explore more general notions of gender, modernity, and cultural identity. In the Cameroon grassfields, an area of high fertility, women hold a paradoxical fear of infertility. By combining symbolic, political-economic, and historical analyses, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg traces the way reproductive threat is …
Sterilizing Vaccines or the Politics of the Womb
In 1990 a rumor that public health workers were administering a vaccine to sterilize girls and women spread throughout Cameroon. Schoolgirls leapt from windows to escape the vaccination teams, and the vaccination campaign (part of the Year of Universal Child Immunization) was aborted. This article traces the origin and development of this rumor. Theories of rumor and ambiguous cultural response to new technologies shed some light on its genesis a…
Remembering 'The Troubles
The 'time of troubles', a period of a radical nationalist movement (the UPC) and state reprisals sometimes called the Bamileke Rebellion, rocked Cameroon during the years surrounding its Independence in 1960. At the time, Bamileke women related their political and economic tribulations to numerous reproductive difficulties. They continue to do so today, linking perceived threats to their ethnic distinctiveness and survival to a sense of reproduct…
Uncertain honor
Urbanites and urban villagers
Most work on the political implications of hometown associations has focused on male elites. This contribution attends instead to the gendered varieties of hometown associations, exploring variations in the bases of shared identity among six Bamiléké women's hometown associations – hailing from Ndé Division, Western Province, and organized in both elite and neighbourhood-based non-elite associations – in Yaoundé, Cameroon. It suggests several way…
Anthropological Perspectives on Care
Mothers on the Move
Strange expectations
When Cameroonian women migrate to Germany, they expect a different obstetric experience than they would have met in Cameroon. They bemoan the loss of family support, but do not yearn for village midwives. These largely urban, educated women expect better and more easily accessible medical care, free of the shortages and corruption plaguing Cameroon's public health system. Their expectations-that bearing children is medically easier but socially h…
Afterword to mothering practices in times of legal precarity
This Afterword to the special issue “Mothering Practices in Times of Legal Precarity: Activism, Care, and Resistance in Displacement” relates the authors’ findings regarding how displaced women adapt their mothering practices to the uncertain legal situations in which they live to key terms in ethnic and racial studies. For each of these key terms—mothering, practices, time, and legal precarity—we learn how the authors and the actors they study c…
Avoiding Hardship, Deflecting Conflict
In 1982, Esther Goody demonstrated the importance of child fostering for social reproduction. Why, in the 2010s and 2020s, does the idea of child fostering remain a valorized expression of “African solidarity” when so many Bamiléké simultaneously retreat—even recoil—from engaging in this practice? Bamiléké parents replace fostering, once praised for promoting resilience, with concerted cultivation. This contribution explores how changes in kinshi…
National Identity and State Formation in Africa
Contesting parenting expertise
Parenting is socially constructed via interpersonal encounters, experiences, and narratives circulated among parenting interlocutors who act simultaneously as experts in and audiences for parenting practices. This contribution addresses the changing and contested nature of parenting expertise in Cameroonian Berlin, exploring how kin, friends, and pedagogical, social service, and medical personnel construct contrasting views of what "good" parenti…
The Time-Space Relations of Mothering in African Diasporas
Sociology (14 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 obras) · African Studies and Ethnography (5 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras)