Claudia Roth (1955–2012) taught and conducted anthropological research at the Universities of Zurich, Bern, and Lucerne. She served on the board of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and was a member of the International Mande Studies Association (MANSA). Urban Dreams is the first collection of her work to appear in English.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Claudia Roth’s Work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina FasoWillemijn de JongPART I: ETHNOGRAPHY AND REFLEXIVITYChapter 1. Culture Shock, Power and Knowledge: Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic FieldworkPART II: NEGOTIATING LOVE AND MARRIAGEChapter 2. Beware When the Women of Bobo Dress Up!: An Ethnographic ContributionChapter 3. “What is Love?”: Changing Matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso – A Case StudyChapter 4. Social Security and Gender: Marital Crisis as a Mirror of the Economic CrisisPART III: ELDERLY PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN: SHARING OR LIVING IN POVERTYChapter 5. Blood Ties as a Social Network: The African Extended Family as an Economic AssociationChapter 6. The Invisible Impoverishment of the Elderly in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 7. 'Shameful': The Inverted Intergenerational Contract in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 8. The Strength of Badenya Ties: Siblings and Social Security in Old Age – The Case of Urban Burkina FasoPART IV: YOUTH: DREAMS AND HARDSHIPSChapter 9. Tea and Dreams: Men’s Generational Conflict in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 10. Between Dreams of Grandeur and Pragmatism: Young People in Urban Burkina FasoPublications of Claudia RothIndex

Claudia Roth (1955–2012) taught and conducted anthropological research at the Universities of Zurich, Bern, and Lucerne. She served on the board of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and was a member of the International Mande Studies Association (MANSA). Urban Dreams is the first collection of her work to appear in English.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Claudia Roth’s Work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina FasoWillemijn de JongPART I: ETHNOGRAPHY AND REFLEXIVITYChapter 1. Culture Shock, Power and Knowledge: Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic FieldworkPART II: NEGOTIATING LOVE AND MARRIAGEChapter 2. Beware When the Women of Bobo Dress Up!: An Ethnographic ContributionChapter 3. “What is Love?”: Changing Matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso – A Case StudyChapter 4. Social Security and Gender: Marital Crisis as a Mirror of the Economic CrisisPART III: ELDERLY PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN: SHARING OR LIVING IN POVERTYChapter 5. Blood Ties as a Social Network: The African Extended Family as an Economic AssociationChapter 6. The Invisible Impoverishment of the Elderly in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 7. 'Shameful': The Inverted Intergenerational Contract in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 8. The Strength of Badenya Ties: Siblings and Social Security in Old Age – The Case of Urban Burkina FasoPART IV: YOUTH: DREAMS AND HARDSHIPSChapter 9. Tea and Dreams: Men’s Generational Conflict in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 10. Between Dreams of Grandeur and Pragmatism: Young People in Urban Burkina FasoPublications of Claudia RothIndex

Claudia Roth (1955–2012) taught and conducted anthropological research at the Universities of Zurich, Bern, and Lucerne. She served on the board of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and was a member of the International Mande Studies Association (MANSA). Urban Dreams is the first collection of her work to appear in English.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Claudia Roth’s Work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina FasoWillemijn de JongPART I: ETHNOGRAPHY AND REFLEXIVITYChapter 1. Culture Shock, Power and Knowledge: Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic FieldworkPART II: NEGOTIATING LOVE AND MARRIAGEChapter 2. Beware When the Women of Bobo Dress Up!: An Ethnographic ContributionChapter 3. “What is Love?”: Changing Matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso – A Case StudyChapter 4. Social Security and Gender: Marital Crisis as a Mirror of the Economic CrisisPART III: ELDERLY PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN: SHARING OR LIVING IN POVERTYChapter 5. Blood Ties as a Social Network: The African Extended Family as an Economic AssociationChapter 6. The Invisible Impoverishment of the Elderly in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 7. 'Shameful': The Inverted Intergenerational Contract in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 8. The Strength of Badenya Ties: Siblings and Social Security in Old Age – The Case of Urban Burkina FasoPART IV: YOUTH: DREAMS AND HARDSHIPSChapter 9. Tea and Dreams: Men’s Generational Conflict in Bobo-DioulassoChapter 10. Between Dreams of Grandeur and Pragmatism: Young People in Urban Burkina FasoPublications of Claudia RothIndex