Author : Esther N. Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521227216
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (272 download)
Book Synopsis Parenthood and Social Reproduction by : Esther N. Goody
Download or read book Parenthood and Social Reproduction written by Esther N. Goody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-02-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last twenty years, Esther Goody has made extensive studies of traditional and contemporary patterns of education and child-rearing in West Africa. In this book she provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed in West Africa either in absence of, or alongside, formal schools, to prepare children for the wide range of economic and political roles now available to them in adult society. Drawing on her work in West Africa and with West Africans in London, Dr Goody shows that among many groups it is common practice to send children to grow up away from home. As a cross-cultural study of a central kinship institution - parenthood - and of processes of change in adult role allocation, the book is of interest to social anthropologists, sociologists, educationalists and social psychologists.