Child fostering in West Africa: new perspectives on theory and practices
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston Brill 2013
Schriftenreihe:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) v. 9
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Beschreibung:Includes index
Introduction / Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans -- A framework for the analysis of parent roles / Esther Goody -- Adoption, fosterage and marriage / Suzanne Lallemand -- The transfer of belonging: theories on child fostering in West Africa reviewed / Erdmute Alber -- Experiencing father's kin and mother's kin: kinship norms and practices from the perspective of foster children in northern Benin / Jeannett Martin -- Relating affiliation and descent: brothers' daughters as co-wives among the Bulsa in northern Ghana / Barbara Meier -- Children coming and going: fostering and lifetime mobility in east Cameroon / Catrien Notermans -- The promises of shared motherhood and the perils of detachment: a comparison of local and transnational child fostering in Cape Verde / Heike Drotbohm -- Disputes over transfers of belonging in the Gold coast in the 1870s: fosterage or debt pawning? / Cati Coe -- Child adoption and foster care in the context of legal pluralism: case studies from Ghana / Ulrike Wanitzek
Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice
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