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CHILDREN & SOCIETY
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 171-182Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/chso.12200
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children; Ethiopia; family; family practices; family relationships
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This article explores how children conceptualise and practice family relationships in two social settings in Ethiopia. Based on ethnographic data, it discusses (i) how urban and rural children construct family; (ii) what family activities children do and which social positions they assume; and (iii) the convergence and divergence of meanings and practices of family relationships between urban and rural Ethiopia. The analysis demonstrates how normative family' and actual family practices' are shaped by socio-cultural, material and spatial contexts. Insights drawn also reveal the complex ways in which access to material resources, geographical distance, rural-urban locations and cultural traits such as patterns of marriage and child relocation practices shape family relationships. (C) 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and National Children's Bureau
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