Frontiers of globalization : kinship and family structures in Africa /
Frontiers of globalization : kinship and family structures in Africa /
edited by Ana Marta Gonzâlez, Laurie DeRose, and Florence Oloo.
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2011.
- xxii, 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-279) and index.
Changes in African families : a review of anthropological and sociological approaches towards family and kinship in Africa / Erdmute Alber and Astrid Bochow -- Stretched and strained but not broken : kinship in contemporary Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- Child trafficking in West Africa? / Erdmute Alber -- An approach to the concept of family in the African Union / Paloma Durán y Lalaguna -- Legislating marriage : globalization and family law reform in West Africa / Susanna D. Wing -- Matrifocality, patriarchy and globalization : changing family forms in a south African city / Leslie Bank -- Towards a different kind of freedom : notes on historicizing globalization and women in Africa / Abena P.A. Busia -- African masculinities, relationships, and sexualities / Victor Seidler -- Religion and HIV risk / Laurie DeRose.
1592217710 (cloth : alk. paper) 1592217729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010038844
Families--Africa.
Globalization--Africa.
Africa--Social conditions--21st century.
HQ691 / .F76 2011
306.850967
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-279) and index.
Changes in African families : a review of anthropological and sociological approaches towards family and kinship in Africa / Erdmute Alber and Astrid Bochow -- Stretched and strained but not broken : kinship in contemporary Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- Child trafficking in West Africa? / Erdmute Alber -- An approach to the concept of family in the African Union / Paloma Durán y Lalaguna -- Legislating marriage : globalization and family law reform in West Africa / Susanna D. Wing -- Matrifocality, patriarchy and globalization : changing family forms in a south African city / Leslie Bank -- Towards a different kind of freedom : notes on historicizing globalization and women in Africa / Abena P.A. Busia -- African masculinities, relationships, and sexualities / Victor Seidler -- Religion and HIV risk / Laurie DeRose.
1592217710 (cloth : alk. paper) 1592217729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010038844
Families--Africa.
Globalization--Africa.
Africa--Social conditions--21st century.
HQ691 / .F76 2011
306.850967