wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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Plural Marriage for Our Times: A Reinvented Option?
ISBN: 9780313384783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book's first edition, Philip L. Kilbride showed polygamy as the preferred marriage pattern in most parts of the nonwestern world and explained how plural marriage is surfacing in western countries to address economic and spiritual crises. In "Plural Marriage for Our Times: A Reinvented Option? Second Edition," Kilbride and his coauthor, Douglas R. Page, update and enhance this thesis in light of contemporary circumstances, new studies, and current legal debates. This new edition examines plural marriage's benefits for children. It extends the discussion of polygamy and religion,... In this book's first edition, Philip L. Kilbride showed polygamy as the preferred marriage pattern in most parts of the nonwestern world and explai... |
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269,33 zł |
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Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood
ISBN: 9780897898621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Kenya, like some other nations in Africa and around the globe, has witnessed a rapid rise in street children. The street children in Nairobi come from single parent families which are mostly headed by women. Another group are AIDS orphans. This study documents how street children in Nairobi follow survival strategies including (for boys) collecting garbage, and (for girls), prostitution. Gender is emphasized throughout the book. Although... As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Keny... |
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140,00 zł |
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Faith, Morality and Being Irish: A Caring Tradition in Africa
ISBN: 9780761837596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. rofessors Kilbride and Farley use ethnographic techniques and narrative perspective to focus on the life of an Irish entrepreneur and philanthropist who has lived in Africa since 1970. They also illuminate the missionary work in Kenya of an Irish Jesuit and others of Irish heritage there.
rofessors Kilbride and Farley use ethnographic techniques and narrative perspective to focus on the life of an Irish entrepreneur and philanthropist w...
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297,87 zł |
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Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood
ISBN: 9780897895293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Kenya, like some other nations in Africa and around the globe, has witnessed a rapid rise in street children. The street children in Nairobi come from single parent families which are mostly headed by women. Another group are AIDS orphans. This study documents how street children in Nairobi follow survival strategies including (for boys) collecting garbage, and (for girls), prostitution. Gender is emphasized throughout the book. Although... As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Keny... |
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398,60 zł |
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African Families and the Crisis of Social Change
ISBN: 9780897895194 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 face serious crises today. They are under economic, demographic and political pressures of all kinds; yet, families are not mere h... |
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231,62 zł |