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The Wrong End of the Rope
Field study of coir textile fibres woman workers in Sri Lanka - describes the research method; surveys the village, sexual division of labour, and hierarchy among rope-making rural women; looks at their homemaker activities, child care, life cycle, family budget, etc.; discusses the education of women, health services, and obstacles to basic needs satisfaction; includes a project evaluation of a mat-making development project. Photographs, questionnaire, references, statistical tables.
Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place
The concept of friendship is more easily valued than it is described: this volume brings together reflections on its meaning and practice in a variety of social and cultural settings in history and in the present time, focusing on Asia and the Western, Euro-American world. The extension of the group in which friendship is recognized, and degrees of intimacy (whether or not involving an erotic dimension) and genuine appreciation may vary widely. Friendship may simply include kinship bonds—solidarity being one of its more general characteristics. In various contexts of travelling, migration, and a dearth of offspring, friendship may take over roles of kinship, also in terms of care.
Care, Culture and Citizenship
The authors deal with the public and private domains, the public arrangements of the welfare state and the private social arrangements of family, friendship and care relations in the Netherlands. They focus on elderly people and single parents.
Negotiation and Social Space
This volume of original essays, a companion to Shifting Circles of Support, offers a fresh conceptualisation which views individuals and, then, relationships as crucial elements in the study of family and kinship.
Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged
Care for the elderly has increased in both duration and intensity, particularly because of better medical conditions resulting in increased lifespan. Thus understanding the numerous dimensions of ageing will play a consequential role in determining future national policies. This book addresses a wide spectrum of issues faced by the elderly in India, Sri Lanka and the Netherlands, primarily from social and economic perspectives. South Asian cultures more than others have traditionally endorsed living arrangements that entail co-residence of aged parents with their children, which has been the crux of the support system of the aged. Significant shifts in family structure spurred by modernization prompted increased family nucleation. [NP] All three countries offer interesting insights as India is projected to have an ageing population of 90 million in the near future, and Sri Lanka has one of the highest proportions of ageing people in the developing world. By delving further, one can view these trends in the context of widespread poverty and inadequate social security systems in India, and high human development indicators in Sri Lanka.
Shifting Circles of Support
Contributors, including historians, lawyers, anthropologists, and sociologists, provide eleven essays addressing change and continuity in intimate life arrangements, with a focus on kinship, family, and gender relations and the degree of support and security they offer, in view of the influence of macroeconomic and political processes. Printed in India. AltaMira Press (a division of Sage Publications) is at 1630 North Main Street, Suite 367, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Mediating Means and Fate
Why do birth rates fail to drop in Sub-Saharan Africa? This question has preoccupied demographers and population planners for decades. The expectation of fertility decline is based on the demographic transition model which still dominates demographic thinking, and which assumes a universal development towards low mortality and fertility levels following modernisation. This book argues that population dynamics can only be understood when viewed in their particular context. It provides both a critique of demographic methods and theorizing, and a detailed analysis of fertility issues in the rapidly changing urban environment of Bamako, capital city of Mali. A new light is shed on the population debate through the conceptualization of the meso-level, illuminating a part of the social world which usually remains obscure.
