TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alber,Erdmute
TI  - Transfers of belonging: child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century 
T2  - Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies
SN  - 9789004360419
AV  - HQ792.A358 
U1  - 305.230966 22
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Children
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Families
KW  - Foster children
KW  - Bariba (African people)
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Socialization
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - "This book was published in 2013 in German under the title Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel. Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehorigkeit in Westafrika by Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, Germany."; Front Matter -- Contents -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering -- Parenthood in Rural Borgu -- Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Transfers of Belonging , Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the ‘right’ parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004360419
ER  -