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Foreword 1. Background, Challenges, and Perspectives -- 2. The Bioecology of Human Development -- 3. Developmental Roots: A Brief Perspective on West Africa's Geography -- 4. Developmental Roots: The West African Sociocultural Environment -- 5. Historical Roots: (West) Africa's Heritage -- 6. Historical Roots: Continuity and Discontinuity in West African Reproductive Ideas and Status Roles -- 7. Childhood and Human Development in West African Cultures -- 8. Conceptualizing Developmental Research in Ecocultural Context -- 9. Cross-Cultural Developmental Psychology -- 10. Thoughts on Developmental Research in the Third World -- 11. Concluding Statement. Michael E. Lamb --



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Child development--Africa, West.
Ethnopsychology--Africa, West.
Developmental psychology--Africa, West.

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