Product Description: The South African government gave no quarter to young people who joined the struggle against the apartheid state; indeed, it targeted them. Security forces meted out cruel treatment to youth who rebelled, incarcerated even the very young under dreadful conditions, and used torture frequently, sometimes over long periods of time...read more

Product Description: A thought provoking and entertaining book about the ongoing struggle between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law as they strive to foster a harmonious relationship for the benefit of their son/spouse. The book offers interesting vignettes and brainstorming discussions to enrich the debate and promote communication...read more

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Product Description: Based on the author's fieldwork among the people of Zezuru, this study focuses on children as clients and as healers in training. In Reynolds's ethnographic investigation of possession and healing, she pays particular attention to the way healers are identified and authenticated in communities, and how they are socialized in the use of medicinal plants, dreams and ritual healing practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this, the first comprehensive study of the Tonga people in Zimbabwe, Pamela Reynolds focuses on children’s work in a subsistence agricultural system, assessing how much work they do, the value of their work to their families and how it both limits their opportunities and fosters their personal growth and knowledge...read more

Product Description: In this, the first comprehensive study of the Tonga people in Zimbabwe, Pamela Reynolds focuses on children’s work in a subsistence agricultural system, assessing how much work they do, the value of their work to their families and how it both limits their opportunities and fosters their personal growth and knowledge...read more

Essays discuss the effects of apartheid on children growing up in South Africa, including poverty, ignorance, malnutrition, and violence

Essays discuss the effects of apartheid on children growing up in South Africa, including poverty, ignorance, malnutrition, and violence

Product Description: Fourteen-year-old Monday Holliday learns a lot about herself when her first romance gets mixed up with her older brother's drug dealing.