Child fostering in West Africa : new perspectives on theory and practices /
Child fostering in West Africa : new perspectives on theory and practices /
edited by Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans.
- 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : illustrations.
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; v. 9 .
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 9. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248755. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1. A Framework for the Analysis of Parent Roles / 2. Adoption, Fosterage, and Alliance / 3. The Transfer of Belonging: Theories on Child Fostering in West Africa Reviewed / 4. Experiencing Father’s Kin and Mother’s Kin: Kinship Norms and Practices from the Perspective of Foster Children in Northern Benin / 5. Relating Affiliation and Descent: Brothers’ Daughters as Co-wives among the Bulsa in Northern Ghana / 6. Children Coming and Going: Fostering and Lifetime Mobility in East Cameroon / 7. The Promises of Shared Motherhood and the Perils of Detachment: A Comparison of Local and Transnational Child Fostering in Cape Verde / 8. Disputes Over Transfers of Belonging in the Gold Coast in the 1870s: Fosterage or Debt Pawning? / 9. Child Adoption and Foster Care in the Context of Legal Pluralism: Case Studies from Ghana / Index. Erdmute Alber , Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans -- Esther Goody -- Suzanne Lallemand -- Erdmute Alber -- Jeannett Martin -- Barbara Meier -- Catrien Notermans -- Heike Drotbohm -- Cati Coe -- Ulrike Wanitzek --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Child fostering is an age-old and also modern phenomenon whose importance stretches much further than the boundaries of so-called ‘traditional’ African societies. As a mobile and creative kinship practice, child fostering is of growing importance in the global world as it goes along with other forms of mobility such as migration and transnationalism. The book aims to revitalize the study of fostering by situating the issue in more recent theoretical approaches to kinship. It also examines what functionalist and structuralist theory may still contribute to the understanding of child fostering. Historical and recent child fostering practices in several West African countries are discussed from the angles of Anthropology, History and Law.
9789004250611
10.1163/9789004250611 DOI
2013004290
Foster children--Care--Africa, West.
Foster home care--Africa, West.
Foster parents--Africa, West.
HV875.58.A358 / C45 2013
362.7330966
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1. A Framework for the Analysis of Parent Roles / 2. Adoption, Fosterage, and Alliance / 3. The Transfer of Belonging: Theories on Child Fostering in West Africa Reviewed / 4. Experiencing Father’s Kin and Mother’s Kin: Kinship Norms and Practices from the Perspective of Foster Children in Northern Benin / 5. Relating Affiliation and Descent: Brothers’ Daughters as Co-wives among the Bulsa in Northern Ghana / 6. Children Coming and Going: Fostering and Lifetime Mobility in East Cameroon / 7. The Promises of Shared Motherhood and the Perils of Detachment: A Comparison of Local and Transnational Child Fostering in Cape Verde / 8. Disputes Over Transfers of Belonging in the Gold Coast in the 1870s: Fosterage or Debt Pawning? / 9. Child Adoption and Foster Care in the Context of Legal Pluralism: Case Studies from Ghana / Index. Erdmute Alber , Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans -- Esther Goody -- Suzanne Lallemand -- Erdmute Alber -- Jeannett Martin -- Barbara Meier -- Catrien Notermans -- Heike Drotbohm -- Cati Coe -- Ulrike Wanitzek --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Child fostering is an age-old and also modern phenomenon whose importance stretches much further than the boundaries of so-called ‘traditional’ African societies. As a mobile and creative kinship practice, child fostering is of growing importance in the global world as it goes along with other forms of mobility such as migration and transnationalism. The book aims to revitalize the study of fostering by situating the issue in more recent theoretical approaches to kinship. It also examines what functionalist and structuralist theory may still contribute to the understanding of child fostering. Historical and recent child fostering practices in several West African countries are discussed from the angles of Anthropology, History and Law.
9789004250611
10.1163/9789004250611 DOI
2013004290
Foster children--Care--Africa, West.
Foster home care--Africa, West.
Foster parents--Africa, West.
HV875.58.A358 / C45 2013
362.7330966