Claudia Roth & Willemijn de Jong 
Urban Dreams [PDF ebook] 
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Claudia Roth’s Work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso
Willemijn de Jong

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 Burkina 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

Noemi Steuer (1957-2020) was a researcher at the Center for African Studies, University of Basel.
Heinzpeter Znoj is Professor at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern.