cooking inside: kinship and gender in Bangangté idioms of marriage and procreation

In this article I analyze the ways in which Bangangté ideas about marriage and procreation reveal the gendered experience of kinship. In Bangangté kinship ideology, notions of procreative cooking are central to representing the sometimes conflicting demands of double descent. Kitchens, cooking, and commensality are simultaneously the basis of marriage—enclosing the wife within the husband's patrilineage—and the maintenance of matrilineal ties. Culinary imagery provides an alternative emphasis to a dominant agnatic ideology in Bangangté discourse on social belonging. [procreation, kinship ideology, gender, cooking, sociospatial categories, metaphor, Cameroon]