Connecting with South Africa : cultural communication and understanding / Astrid Berg.

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2012]

xii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

1st ed.

Building bridges : infants and parents in a Cape Town community -- And what about the infant? -- The baby's name was not understood : a case of failed and possibly successful mother-infant psychotherapy -- Ancestor reverence -- An adolescent rite of passage : what can we learn from African culture? -- Ubuntu : an African contribution to the "civilization as a whole."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-128) and index.