Frontiers of globalization
Subtitle: kinship and family structures in Africa
By: edited by Ana Marta González, Laurie DeRose, and Florence Oloo
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Changes in African families : a review of anthropological and sociological approaches towards family and kinship in Africa / Erdmute Alber and Astrid Bochow; title: Stretched and strained but not broken : kinship in contemporary Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith; title: Child trafficking in West Africa? / Erdmute Alber; title: An approach to the concept of family in the African Union / Paloma Durán y Lalaguna; title: Legislating marriage : globalization and family law reform in West Africa / Susanna D. Wing; title: Matrifocality, patriarchy and globalization : changing family forms in a south African city / Leslie Bank; title: Towards a different kind of freedom : notes on historicizing globalization and women in Africa / Abena P.A. Busia; title: African masculinities, relationships, and sexualities / Victor Seidler; title: Religion and HIV risk / Laurie DeRose.