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Nwaja

The effects of family structure on the phenomenon of physical child abuse in Igboland, Nigeria

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ISBN: 978-3-8288-3701-0

Verlag: Tectum

Erscheinungstermin: 04.04.2016

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Cultural issues are somtimes powerful and sensitive that they command unreflected loyalty from members of the group. The use of physical punishment in Igboland appears to be one of such cultural sensitivities. The author provides the framework for understanding the way Igbo people think about certain held beliefs especially in the context of childrearing practices, given that most people act out of convictions even when they are not able to rationally explain their actions. Thus, the personal history, personality style, the ability to nurture and assist the child?s developmental progress, the beliefs, convictions and the psychology of parents and caregivers have bearing more or less on the phenomenon of physical child abuse. The book underscores that the dominant social philosophy, the egalitarian or non-egalitarian nature, the competitiveness, the social policies, the world view and the social construction or definition of childhood and child abuse existent in a society ? all must be taken into consideration. It seeks to serve as a response to the lack of comprehensive ethnographic and anthropological reflection on the connection between the structure of Igbo family and the phenomenon of physical child abuse. The author unpacks several cultural taboos placing them in anthropological perspectives for a better understanding of Igbo entrenched cultural practices.

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Artikelnummer: 9783828837010
Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-3-8288-3701-0
Verlag: Tectum
Erscheinungstermin: 04.04.2016
Sprache(n): Englisch
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
Serie: Wissenschaftliche Beiträge aus dem Tectum Verlag: Ethnologie
Produktform: Kartoniert, broschiert
Gewicht: 474 g
Seiten: 360
Format (B x H): 148 x 210 mm
Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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Acknowledgment
PART ONE
Ethnographic Research in Igboland
Chapter One
ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
1.1 INTRODUCTION, PROBLEM AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
The dynamics of physical child abuse in a culture where physical punishment thrives
Cultural sensitivity and Ad hominem approach
Injury and abusive behaviour
Physical child abuse and physical punishment: any cultural connection?
1.2 Main Perspectives
Choice of study
Scope, Aims and Goals
1.3 Ethnographic Fieldwork
Ethnography of fieldwork in Igboland
Coming back home
Receptivity and impressions
Enugu City: Identity and fieldwork
Language and communication in fieldwork context
Organization of the book
Chapter Two: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
2.1 Research methodology and techniques
Informants: persons and institutions
Edem Town: Investigation methods and techniques
Relevance of study
2.2 Theoretical perspective
“Mmegbu”: meaning and application
Mmegbu: normative and contextual insight
What is Gewalt?
State of the art: an overview on Gewalt
Gewalt and changing sociocultural contexts
Violence: necessary ingredient of Gewalt
Gewalt in the present work
Chapter Three: ETHNOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF THE IGBO
3.1 Igbo People
Research area
Igbo groups, neighbours and origin
Traits and characteristics
3.2 Basic Social Institutions
Ezi na Ulo (the family)
The village: social space for power and domination
Life in the village
3.3 Fundamental political institutions
Edem political structure
Onyeishi: the political head
Chieftaincy and elderhood
Age grade (otu ogbo) and masquerade cults (mmanwu)
The Igbo political contour
Chapter Four: SOCIAL IDENTITY AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
4.1 Social identity
The Igbo creativity
Mobility and occupation
Hospitality
Group syndrome empowerment
The communal consciousness of the Igbo
4.2 Economic activities
Farming and land use
Iron working
Trade and Craftmanship
Part Two

IGBO FAMILY: PAST AND PRESENT
Chapter five: Understanding Igbo family
5.1 Definition and Types of family
Etymology / Definition
Women’s image
Ulonta
Obu or Okwu
Land and family (Ezi na Ulo)
More insight on kinship structure
Kinship in Edem
Family type and structure
Family types based on socioeconomic category
Family types based on kin category
Nuclear or basic family
The Extended family (Obu, Owuama)
Okpala’s domestic authority and functions
Solo / single family
Monogamous family
Polygamous family
The Umunna Unit (Patrilineal grouping)
Village – Unit
The transformation process: Old Igbo family vs modern Igbo family
5.2 The family as socialising and empowering institution
The cosmological setting
The education of women
The domestic authority/power structure
Chapter Six: NWAJA – THE FULCRUM OF IGBO FAMILY
6.1 Meaning and cultural underpinnings
Nwaja: definition and cultural signification
Nwaja: an embodiment of sociocultural possibilities
Corrective measures adopted by parents
The imperatives of the socialisation process
6.2 Igbo conception of personhood
A short historical overview
African ideas of the body, person and individual
African diachronic approach to personhood
Igbo cultural construction of personhood
6.3 The categorization of Children
Consanguineal children
Children from consanguineal relatives
Foster children / House Help
Delayed Self-other differentiation
External locus control syndrome
PART THREE
Family structure vis-a-vis physical child abuse
Chapter seven: VIOLENCE AND ABUSE
7.1 Origin, definition and cultural construction of abuse
Origin of violence/abuse
Definition/cultural construction of (physical) child abuse
What is culturally reasonable?
Frequency
Intensity
Time factor
Type or choice
Choice of place
The scope of the problem
7.2 Physical child abuse
Contextual analysis: Enugu versus Edem
Enugu Context
Edem Context
The role of socioeconomic and cultural factors
Family structure and physical child abuse
Examples of physically abused children
Case A: (business family)
Case B: (educated family)
Case C: (peasant family)
Implications for family structure and PCA
Chapter eight: MACRO POLITICS: PROTECTION AND PREVENTION OF PCA
8.1 Managing and preventing physical child abuse
Creating awareness/mandatory reporting
Creating Awareness
The state Level:

The Local Government Level:

The Community Level:

Mandatory Reporting of physical child abuse
8.2 Protection from abuse and neglect
The child as person
The parents/guardians: micro sociocultural environment
The Society: macro sociocultural system
8.3 Preventing physical child abuse
Primary prevention
Working with abusive families
Evaluating Preventive Strategies
Receiving children into care
The medical profession
The police
8.4 African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN)
The Ministry for Women Affairs
8.5 The Problem of Co-ordination
9. CONCLUSION AND CLOSING REMARKS
Conclusion
PCA and physical punishment in cultural perspective – a flashback
Reviewing Family structure and physical child abause
Nwaja – a bundle of possibilities
The Igbo emic view of violence and PCA
Keeping our children safe is a priority

Closing Remarks
10. REFERENCES
Appendix A: Directions for future research and development
Appendix B: Interviews and informants

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