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024 7 _a10.1163/9789004250611
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245 0 0 _aChild fostering in West Africa :
_bnew perspectives on theory and practices /
_cedited by Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAfrica-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ;
_vv. 9
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material --
_tIntroduction /
_rErdmute Alber , Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans --
_t1. A Framework for the Analysis of Parent Roles /
_rEsther Goody --
_t2. Adoption, Fosterage, and Alliance /
_rSuzanne Lallemand --
_t3. The Transfer of Belonging: Theories on Child Fostering in West Africa Reviewed /
_rErdmute Alber --
_t4. Experiencing Father’s Kin and Mother’s Kin: Kinship Norms and Practices from the Perspective of Foster Children in Northern Benin /
_rJeannett Martin --
_t5. Relating Affiliation and Descent: Brothers’ Daughters as Co-wives among the Bulsa in Northern Ghana /
_rBarbara Meier --
_t6. Children Coming and Going: Fostering and Lifetime Mobility in East Cameroon /
_rCatrien Notermans --
_t7. The Promises of Shared Motherhood and the Perils of Detachment: A Comparison of Local and Transnational Child Fostering in Cape Verde /
_rHeike Drotbohm --
_t8. Disputes Over Transfers of Belonging in the Gold Coast in the 1870s: Fosterage or Debt Pawning? /
_rCati Coe --
_t9. Child Adoption and Foster Care in the Context of Legal Pluralism: Case Studies from Ghana /
_rUlrike Wanitzek --
_tIndex.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aChild 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.
650 0 _aFoster children
_xCare
_zAfrica, West.
650 0 _aFoster home care
_zAfrica, West.
650 0 _aFoster parents
_zAfrica, West.
700 1 _aAlber, Erdmute.
700 1 _aMartin, Jeannett.
700 1 _aNotermans, Catrien,
_d1966-
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tChild Fostering in West Africa: New Perspectives on Theory and Practices
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013,
_z9789004250574
830 0 _aAfrica-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
_v9.
830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248755.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004250611
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_d11858