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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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African families are responding to serious crises in resilient ways. This volume provides socially and historically based, culturally rich, multigenerational, interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on family life in Africa today.
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.
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- PublisherPraeger
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0897894731
- ISBN 13 9780897894739
- BindingHardcover
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