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Author Goody, Esther N.

Title Parenthood and social reproduction : fostering and occupational roles in West Africa / Esther N. Goody
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982

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Description xiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 35
Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 35
Contents Machine derived contents note: 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 333-340
Notes Cambridge studies in social anthropology no:35 0068-6794
Subject Cross-cultural studies -- Africa, West.
Foster parents -- Africa, West.
Parenthood -- Africa, West.
Parenthood.
Socialization -- Africa, West.
Socialization.
LC no. 80042177
ISBN 0521227216