| Description |
xxii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Families -- Africa.
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Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Globalization -- Africa.
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| Added Author |
González, Ana Marta, 1969-
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DeRose, Laurie Fields, 1968-
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Oloo, Florence.
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| ISBN |
1592217710 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781592217717 cloth alkaline paper |
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1592217729 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781592217724 paperback alkaline paper |
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