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The Effect Of Urbanization And Modernization On Family Structure In Oman, Sultan M. Al-Hashmi
The Effect Of Urbanization And Modernization On Family Structure In Oman, Sultan M. Al-Hashmi
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis was designed to describe family change in Oman as it undergoes urbanization and modernization. A survey questionnaire to measure these changes was developed. Some questions were developed in two forms for a comparison of family change across two generations. Respondents were asked to answer the questions as they applied to their current family situation. They were then asked to consider, according to their best recollections, what the situation was in their parents' generation.
Women In African Traditional Politics, E. Kofi Agorsah
Women In African Traditional Politics, E. Kofi Agorsah
Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article attempts to trace, by use of archaeological, historical and cultural evidence, certain structural features of African political systems that provide specific roles for women and the significance of these structures for African politics (compare Canham 1949; Badu 1965; Adu 1949; Busia 1951). It will be shown that in some cases the bases for the development of such political structures continue to exist in some African political systems of modern times. Examples from Egypt, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria and other countries are used in the discussion to emphasize the significance of some of the roles played by women in …
Evidence And Interpretation In The Archaeology Of Jamaica, E. Kofi Agorsah
Evidence And Interpretation In The Archaeology Of Jamaica, E. Kofi Agorsah
Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
One of the most challenging statements in the Archaeology of the New World is the one made by James Deetz, an eminent Archaeologist, that: "The personalities of prehistory will remain forever nameless and without faces", (Deetz 1977). Any one with background training in prehistoric Archaeology of the Old ~rid would at first glance at the statement view it with scorn. I was no exception to this reaction. But when I started updating myself on archaeological studies in the Caribbean I started giving the statement a serious thought especially having come across Clinton Black's description of the first Jamaicans as "a …