Abstract

This paper considers the meanings attached to reproductive processes and outcomes and how these are linked to the Kamba notions of illness, health and well-being. It explores the cultural meanings of reproductive failures and successes, and the importance of childbearing for individuals, the family and the wider kin. Drawing on anthropological data produced over a period of ten months' field study, the paper uses specific cases to show the ways in which social, sexual and reproductive misfortunes are perceived, explained, and managed. These, the paper argues, are embedded in the Akamba concepts of disease / illness causation, health and well-being. Cet article fait l'analyse des significations et des consequences attribuees aux processus de reproduction. L'analyse montre comment ces notions sont liees a la maladie, a la sante et au bien-etre du peuple Akamba. Il explore les significations culturelles des problemes et des reussites de la reproduction ainsi que l'importance de la grossesse pour les individus, la famille et les parents. L'article, par le biais des donnees anthropologiques recueillies sur une periode d'etude de dix mois, utilise des cas specifiques pour montrer comment les malchances sociales et sexuelles liees a la reproduction sont percues, expliquees, et gerees. Selon l'article, ces problemes d'infertilite font partie integrante du concept de la maladie, de la sante et du bien-etre du peuple Akamba.

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