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Frontiers of globalization : kinship and family structures in Africa / edited by Ana Marta Gonzâlez, Laurie DeRose, and Florence Oloo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2011.Description: xxii, 290 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1592217710 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1592217729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.850967 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ691 .F76 2011
Contents:
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.
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Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Main Stack HQ691.F76 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 79296
Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Main Stack HQ691.F76 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 79297

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.

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