Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology - Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa

Klappentext In this book Dr Goody provides an account of the rich variety of institutions! such as fostering! apprenticeship and wardship! which have developed in West Africa. Zusammenfassung In this book Dr Goody 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A framework for the analysis of parent roles; Part I. Parent Roles in Gonja: 2. Kinship fostering; 3. The Kpembe study; Part II. Parent Roles in West Africa: 4. The circulation of women and children in northern Ghana with Jack Goody; 5. Traditional states: responses to hierarchy and differentiation; 6. Contemporary patterns in southern Ghana; 7. Fostering contrasted; 8. Modern apprenticeship: response to differentiation; 9. Creole wardship: response to hierarchy; Part III. Beyond West Africa: 10. The quest for education with Christine Muir Groothues; 11. West African and West Indian immigrant families; 12. Parenthood and social reproduction; Appendix I: data from the Kpembe study; Appendix II: data on the southern Ghana surveys; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Index of authors.

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• Authors: Esther N. Goody, Esther N. (University of Cambridge) Goody
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2007
• EAN: 9780521040174
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04017-4
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an; Print on Demand
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education