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Child Fostering in West Africa

New Perspectives on Theory and Practices
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
262 Seiten
Englisch
Brillerschienen am17.05.2013
Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextChild fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-90-04-25057-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2013
Erscheinungsdatum17.05.2013
Seiten262 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 18 mm
Gewicht408 g
Artikel-Nr.29064346

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
CONTENTSList of figuresAcknowledgmentsList of contributorsChild fostering in West Africa: introductionErdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien NotermansPART IPERSPECTIVES ON THEORIES1. A framework for the analysis of parent rolesEsther Goody2. Adoption, fosterage and marriage Suzanne Lallemand3. The transfer of belonging: theories on child fostering in West Africa reviewedErdmute AlberPART IINEGOTIATING STRUCTURE: PERSPECTIVES FROM ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY AND LAW4. Experiencing father´s kin and mother´s kin: kinship norms and practices from the perspective of foster children in northern BeninJeannett Martin5. Relating affiliation and descent: brothers´ daughters as co-wives among the Bulsa in northern GhanaBarbara Meier6. Children coming and going: fostering and lifetime mobility in East CameroonCatrien Notermans7. The promises of shared motherhood and the perils of detachment: a comparison of local and transnational child fostering in Cape VerdeHeike Drotbohm8. Disputes over transfers of belonging in the Gold Coast in the 1870s: fosterage or debt pawning?Cati Coe9. Child adoption and foster care in the context of legal pluralism: case studies from GhanaUlrike WanitzekIndexmehr

Autor

Erdmute Alber holds the chair of Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University. Her empirical and theoretical interests are in kinship, inter-generational relations, childhood and parenting, as well as in political anthropology. She has realized long term fieldwork in Latin America and West Africa.

Jeannett Martin is a postdoctoral research fellow in Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University. She has done research on educational migration between southern Ghana and Germany and on child fostering and inter-ethnic relations in northern Benin.

Catrien Notermans is an anthropologist and senior researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She has been doing long-term fieldwork in West Africa, Europe and Asia, concentrating on kinship, gender, and religion.
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