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By featuring the life histories of eight senior men, this work explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. It concentrates on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation.

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After a quarter-century of gender ethnography focusing on women, this study on manhood is long overdue. . . . Apart from being a fascinating retrospective of eight full lives, this book is indeed a mnemonic monument for these same men and their children.

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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue and Personae
1. "To Be a Man Is Hard": Masculinities and Life Histories
2. Children and Childhood: Work and Play, 1900–1930
3. Forms of Education: Apprenticeships and Schools, 1919–1947
4. The Employment of Men: Clerks, Police, Soldiers, and Teachers, 1930–1951
5. The Marriages of Men: Sexuality and Fatherhood, 1930–1970
6. Speaking Sensibly: Men as Elders in the Twentieth Century
Epilogue: "No Condition Is Permanent"
Postscript
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 24/11/2005
      ISBN13: 9780253217868, 978-0253217868
      ISBN10: 0253217865
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      Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      By featuring the life histories of eight senior men, this work explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. It concentrates on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation.

      Trade Review

      After a quarter-century of gender ethnography focusing on women, this study on manhood is long overdue. . . . Apart from being a fascinating retrospective of eight full lives, this book is indeed a mnemonic monument for these same men and their children.

      * Africa *

      Table of Contents

      Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Abbreviations
      Prologue and Personae
      1. "To Be a Man Is Hard": Masculinities and Life Histories
      2. Children and Childhood: Work and Play, 1900–1930
      3. Forms of Education: Apprenticeships and Schools, 1919–1947
      4. The Employment of Men: Clerks, Police, Soldiers, and Teachers, 1930–1951
      5. The Marriages of Men: Sexuality and Fatherhood, 1930–1970
      6. Speaking Sensibly: Men as Elders in the Twentieth Century
      Epilogue: "No Condition Is Permanent"
      Postscript
      Glossary
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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