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.

Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alber, Erdmute, Martin, Jeannett, Notermans, Catrien, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 9.
Subjects:
Foster children > Care > Africa, West.
Foster home care > Africa, West.
Foster parents > Africa, West.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
Foster children > Care
Foster home care
Foster parents
West Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans
  • A framework for the analysis of parent roles / Esther Goody
  • Adoption, fosterage and marriage / Suzanne Lallemand
  • The transfer of belonging: theories on child fostering in West Africa reviewed / Erdmute Alber
  • Experiencing father's kin and mother's kin: kinship norms and practices from the perspective of foster children in northern Benin / Jeannett Martin
  • Relating affiliation and descent: brothers' daughters as co-wives among the Bulsa in northern Ghana / Barbara Meier
  • Children coming and going: fostering and lifetime mobility in east Cameroon / Catrien Notermans
  • The promises of shared motherhood and the perils of detachment: a comparison of local and transnational child fostering in Cape Verde / Heike Drotbohm
  • Disputes over transfers of belonging in the Gold coast in the 1870s: fosterage or debt pawning? / Cati Coe
  • Child adoption and foster care in the context of legal pluralism: case studies from Ghana / Ulrike Wanitzek.

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