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Child fostering in West Africa : new perspectives on theory and practices /
Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;
v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.