Candice Bradley, Philip Kilbride, Thomas Weisner

African Families and the Crisis of Social Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

African families face serious crises today. They are under economic, demographic and political pressures of all kinds; yet, families are not mere hapless victims of global change. They are proactive, resilient agents and creators of change. This volume studies global and national transformation from the point of view of families in local communities. Contributors are from Africa, North America, and Europe, and provide socially and historically based, culturally rich, multigenerational, and comparative perspectives on family life in Africa today. The essays explore contemporary change in African families, and consequences for children and parents, the elderly, gender roles, moral values, fertility, health (HIV and nutrition), and economic development. Ultimately, despite desperate economic, sociohistorical, demographic and political circumstances, African families remain vitally important for social and psychological support throughout an individual's life span.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780897895194
• ISBN-10: 0897895193
• Artikelnr.: 22136561

Autorenporträt

THOMAS S. WEISNER is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. CANDICE BRADLEY is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lawrence University at Appleton, Wisconsin. PHILIP L. KILBRIDE is Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Beatrice Whiting and John Whiting Introduction: Crisis in the
African Family by Candice Bradley and Thomas S. Weisner Human Development,
Values, and Family Change Psychological and Institutional Defense
Mechanisms in Times of Change by Joshua Akong'a Support for Children and
the African Family Crisis by Thomas S. Weisner Morality and Change: Family
Unity and Paternal Authority among Kipsigis and Abaluyia Elders and
Students by Carolyn Pope Edwards Gender, Status, and Values among Likuyu
and Appalachian Adolescents by Susan Abbott Health HIV/AIDS Risk Factors
and Changing Sexual Practices in Kenya by A. B. C. Ocholla-Ayayo The Social
and Cultural Contexts of Food Production in Uganda and Kenya by Michael A.
Whyte Malnutrition and Gender Relations in Western Kenya by Susan Reynolds
Whyte and Priscilla Wanjiru Kariuki Aging The Discourse of Neglect: Family
Support for the Elderly in Samia by Maria G. Cattell Pronatalism and the
Elderly in Tiriki, Kenya by Walter H. Sangree Stigma, Role Overload, and
Delocalization among Contemporary Kenyan Women by Philip L. Kilbride and
Janet C. Kilbride Gender and Reproduction Why Fertility is Going Down in
Maragoli by Candice Bradley Gender and Life Course Strategies among the
Gusii by N. Thomas Håkansson and Robert A. LeVine Resource Allocation and
Polygyny in the Lake Victoria Basin by Joseph W. Ssennyonga Changing
Women's Rights over Property in Western Kenya by Ruth Nasimiyu Logoli
Childhood and the Cultural Reproduction of Sex Differentiation by Robert L.
Munroe and Ruth H. Munroe Culture, Family, and Economy Right Values and
Good Fortune: Bukusu Responses to Ecological Opportunity by Jan J. de Wolf
Changing Roles in the Bukusu Family by Simiyu Wandibba Modernization,
Family Life, and Child Development in Kokwet by Charles M. Super and Sara
Harkness Index