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Lifetimes Intertwined: African Grandparents and Grandchildren

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Susan R. Whyte ,
Erdmute Alber  and
P. Wenzel Geissler
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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 fundamental issues of temporality and relationship. While grandparents and grandchildren live together in shared time, their lifetimes overlap only partly. They have different pasts and different futures, and they share a present that in many countries is being radically affected by historical transformations such as urbanisation, impoverishment and the scourge of AIDS.

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Research Article
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Africa , Volume 74 , Issue 1: Grandparents and Grandchildren , February 2003 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Political Science Association 2003

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