Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-340) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction -- A framework for the analysis of parent roles -- Kinship fostering -- The Kpembe study -- The circulation of women and children in norther Ghana / with Jack Goody -- Traditional states : responses to hierarchy and differentiation -- Contemporary patterns in southern Ghana -- Fostering contrasted -- Modern apprenticeship : response to differentiation -- Creole wardship : response to hierarchy -- The quest for education / with Christine Muir Groothues -- West African and West Indian immigrant families -- Parenthood and social reproduction -- Appendix I : data from the Kpembe study -- Appendix II : data on the southern Ghana surveys.