The Circulation of Children : Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru /

Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historical practices respond to and are constrained by state and international efforts to concretize family and love.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social structure.
Social conditions.
Moral conditions.
Kinship.
Interpersonal relations.
Indians of South America > Kinship.
Indian children > Social conditions.
Children > Family relationships.
Adoption.
Interpersonal relations > Peru > Ayacucho.
Social structure > Peru > Ayacucho.
Adoption > Peru > Ayacucho.
Kinship > Peru > Ayacucho.
Indians of South America > Kinship > Peru > Ayacucho.
Children > Family relationships > Peru > Ayacucho.
Indian children > Peru > Ayacucho > Social conditions.
Peru > Ayacucho.
Ayacucho (Peru) > Moral conditions.
Ayacucho (Peru) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historical practices respond to and are constrained by state and international efforts to concretize family and love.
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822391500

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