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Title:

Families in global and multicultural perspective / edited by Bron B. Ingoldsby, Suzanna D. Smith.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

Sage Publications,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 457 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Family.--Cross-cultural studies.
Kinship.--Cross-cultural studies.
Marriage customs and rites--Cross-cultural studies.
Sex role.--Cross-cultural studies.
Home economics--Cross-cultural studies.
Multiculturalism.

Other Authors:

Ingoldsby, Bron B.
Smith, Suzanna D.

Other Titles:

Families in multicultural perspective.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Families in multicultural perspective. 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Global families -- Comparative research methodology -- The history of the Euro-Western family -- Family origin and universality -- Patterns of kinship and residence -- Marital structure -- Religious utopias and family structure -- Mate selection and marriage -- Parenting practices worldwide -- International divorce -- Diversity in international aging families -- Asian and Latino immigrant families -- Families in the Islamic Middle East -- Families in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Families in Latin America -- Families in Japan -- American Indian families: strength and answers from our past -- Women in the two-thirds world -- Household division of labor in industrial societies -- Poverty and family policy in a global context.

ISBN:

9780761928195 (cloth)
0761928197 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58807246

LCCN:

2005008578

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UOAX771 -- Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center - Medical Library (Des Moines)