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.

• 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

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