Abstract
List of tables List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A framework for the analysis of parent roles Part I. Parent Roles in Gonja: 2. Kinship fostering 3. The Kpembe study Part II. Parent Roles in West Africa: 4. The circulation of women and children in northern Ghana with Jack Goody 5. Traditional states: responses to hierarchy and differentiation 6. Contemporary patterns in southern Ghana 7. Fostering contrasted 8. Modern apprenticeship: response to differentiation 9. Creole wardship: response to hierarchy Part III. Beyond West Africa: 10. The quest for education with Christine Muir Groothues 11. West African and West Indian immigrant families 12. Parenthood and social reproduction Appendix I: data from the Kpembe study Appendix II: data on the southern Ghana surveys Notes Bibliography Index Index of authors.
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