| Parenthood and Social Reproduction: Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa Contributor(s): Goody, Esther N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521040175 ISBN-13: 9780521040174 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: Over the last twenty years, Esther Goody has made extensive studies of traditional and contemporary patterns of education and child-rearing in West Africa. In this book she provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed in West Africa either in absence of, or alongside, formal schools, to prepare children for the wide range of economic and political roles now available to them in adult society. Drawing on her work in West Africa and with West Africans in London, Dr Goody shows that among many groups it is common practice to send children to grow up away from home. As a cross-cultural study of a central kinship institution - parenthood - and of processes of change in adult role allocation, the book is of interest to social anthropologists, sociologists, educationalists and social psychologists. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 362.733 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 368 pages |