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Rethinking age in Africa : colonial, post-colonial, and contemporary interpretations of cultural representations

x, 322 p. ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: The present and the past of age notions within historical anthropology : the status quaestionis / Mario I. Aguilar -- Where one sleeps matters : Fipa markers of cultural growth in Tanzania / Kathleen R. Smythe -- Mobility and discipline : colonial age discourse in Tanzania / Thomas Burgess -- 'Have you heard the words of the elders?' : senior Bamana women's adaptations to culture change in rural Mali / Julianne E. Freeman -- Gender, age and power : hierarchy and liminality among Abaluyia women of Kenya / Maria G. Cat…