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In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering projects, the most meaningful and fascinating of which has been the state's effort to create a national culture through its schools. As Cati Coe reveals in 'Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools', this effort has created an unusual paradox: while Ghana encourages its educators to teach about local cultural traditions, those traditions are transformed as they are taught in school classrooms. The state version of culture now taught by educators has become objectified and nationalized--vastly different from local traditions. Coe identifies the state's limitations in teaching cultural knowledge and discusses how Ghanaians negotiate the tensions raised by the competing visions of modernity that nationalism and Christianity have created. She reveals how cultural curricula affect authority relations in local social organizations--between teachers and students, between Christians and national elite, and between children and elders--and raises several questions about educational processes, state-society relations, the production of knowledge, and the making of Ghana's citizenry.

Educational anthropology --- Education and state --- Anthropologie et éducation --- Education --- Politique gouvernementale --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Campus cultures --- Culture and education --- Education and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Culture --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Government policy --- Philosophy --- Anthropologie et éducation

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Emigration and immigration --- Immigrant children --- Transnationalism --- Immigrant children. --- Social aspects.

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In our contemporary period of human mobility and global capitalism, political identifications are being configured in multiple sites beyond the nation-state. The text's theoretical innovation is to analyze what happens at work in terms of larger processes of political belonging. In particular, it examines how the recognitions and reciprocities entailed by care work affect the political belonging of new African migrants in the United States.

Caregivers. --- Home Care Services. --- Foreign workers, African --- Caregivers --- Home care services --- United States. --- Affordable Care Act. --- African American history. --- African migration. --- Washington DC. --- aging. --- care labor. --- cultural capital. --- death. --- dignity. --- domestic service. --- exclusion. --- flexible workforce. --- foreclosure. --- good death. --- health insurance. --- home care. --- home death. --- home ownership. --- house-building. --- humiliation. --- inheritance. --- interdependence. --- kinship. --- labor market. --- mortgages. --- racialization. --- regulations. --- retirement. --- sick leave. --- social mobility. --- social networks. --- transnationalism.

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Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships-the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.

Kinship. --- Older immigrants. --- Intergenerational relations. --- Age and employment. --- Older people --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization. --- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Aging. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Aged immigrants --- Immigrants --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Employment and age --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Ability, Influence of age on --- Child labor --- Post-retirement employment --- Older unemployed --- Employment.