Explores dynamic changes in network size and composition by examining patterns of older adults' social network change over time, that is: types of movements; the reason for the loss of network members; and the relation of movement and composition in concert. This study is a 6-year follow up of changes in the social networks of U.S.-Born Caucasian, African-American, and Caribbean older adults.
For most Ghanaians, the tenets of Pan-Africanism are remote principles that bear little relevance in daily life, in which kinship, linguistic, ethnic, and national affiliations are primary markers of identity. This presents challenges for repatriated Rastafarians from the Caribbean, United States, and Europe, who attempt to establish a home and a place within Ghanaian society while retaining Rastafarian ways of living and spiritual philosophies drawn from a Pan-African ethos.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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229 p., Contents: Antecedents -- Life in the Back of Beyond -- Shifting Sands -- Personal Autonomy -- Age and Gender -- Kinship -- Households and Extended Families -- Death and the Work of Mourning -- Ritual Organization -- Necessity as Mother of Convention -- Afterword -- Kinship Terminology -- Ritual Expenses.
