Africa articles from January 2004

Africa archives from January 2004

Lifetimes intertwined: African grandparents and grandchildren.
January 1, 2004... In this volume we return to one of the treasures of our contributors' anthropological heritage: the study of kinship in Africa. We have chosen to focus on the intertwined lives of grandparents and grandchildren because they raise so clearly...

Sharing home, food, and bed: paths of grandmotherhood in East Cameroon.(intergenerational research)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This article focuses on relationships between grandmothers and grandchildren in an urban society in East Cameroon. It argues that despite fluid generational demarcations between grandmothers and mothers, women perform their...

Grandparents as foster-parents: transformations in foster relations between grandparents and grandchildren in northern Benin: in memory of Bona Taowere (c.1910-2000).
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This article deals with an aspect of the special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren: the fosterage of grandchildren by their (classificatory) grandparents. By becoming social parents with full responsibility for...

Grandparents and grandchildren in Kwahu, Ghana: the performance of respect.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This description of relations between grandparents and grandchildren in a rural Ghanaian community argues that the quality of these relations varies according to age and gender. Literature on African kinship has almost entirely...

The value of grandchildren: changing relations between generations in Botswana.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This article is concerned with the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren in changing Tswana society. It argues that, in order to understand this relationship and how this has been changing, we have to look at...

Children's children: time and relatedness in eastern Uganda.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This article brings two analytic perspectives to bear on temporal aspects of relations to children's children. The first, which we call processual time, is the long-term, 'experience-distant', view of household developmental...

Shared lives: exploring practices of amity between grandmothers and grandchildren in western Kenya.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This essay explores the relationships between three Luo grandmothers and their grandchildren with particular attention to forms of address and of sharing as practices of amity. Classic Africanist kinship studies identified these...