African families in a global context
By: edited by Göran Therborn.
Contributors: Therborn, Göran, 1941-
Series: Research report,; no. 131; Research report (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) ;; no. 131.
Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Family -- Africa -- Congresses; Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers derived from reports at a conference held Nov. 29-Dec. 2, 2001, in Cape Town, South Africa.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Globalization, Africa, and African family pattern / Göran Therborn; title: Demographic innovation and nutritional catastrophe : change, lack of change, and difference in Ghanaian family systems / Christine Oppong; title: Female (in)dependence and male dominance in contemporary Nigerian families / Bola Udegbe; title: Globalization and family patterns : a view from South Africa / Susan C. Ziehl.