TY - BOOK AU - Nsamenang, A Bame AU - Nsamenang,A Bame TI - Human Development in Cultural Context: A Third World Perspective SN - 0803946368 U1 - O40 PY - 1992/// CY - Delhi PB - Sage Publications Ltd KW - Developmental Psychology N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Conceptual Framework ........1 Background, Challenges, and Perspectives ...............3 The Bioecology of Human Development ..........21 2. Developmental Roots ..............43 Developmental Roots: A brief Perspective on West africa`s Geography..............45 Developmental Roots: The west African Sociocultural Environemnt.....................71 3. The triple Heritate ...........97 Historical Roots........99 Childhood and Human Development in west African Cultures..................141 4. The Ecocultural Framework .............165 Conceptualizing developmental Research in Ecocultural context ...................167 Cross-Cultural Developmental Psychology...............189 Thoughts on Developmental Research in the Third World ................209 Concluding statement .................225 ER -