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In this book Esther Goody puts together the results of some twenty years' study of West African institutions for the fostering of children, first inspired by her observations in the small state of Gonja on the northern border of Ashanti, which she compares with ethnographic data from other West African states. Later she examined the practice among four peoples of southern Ghana and among West African and West Indian immigrants in London. In the London chapters the word 'foster' is bafflingly used to refer to sending children away as well as taking charge of them. Dr Goody approaches her theme by teasing out into its different strands the complex of responsibilities associated with parenthood, and showing which of these are delegated in different circumstances. The complex comprises the various functions that together achieve the social as well as physical replacement of one generation by the next. At the foundation are bearing and begetting, irreducible facts which cannot be altered, however they may be interpreted as conferring on the child a birth-status carrying with it rights and obligations. Then come nurturance, training (education, socialization), and 'sponsorship', defined

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Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Published

1982

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences