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Child fostering in West Africa: new perspectives on theory and practices/ edited by Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 9.Publication details: Boston: Brill, 2013.Description: xii, 250 páginas; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9789004250574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9789004250611 (e-book)
ISSN:
  • 1574-6925
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 362.7330966
LOC classification:
  • HV875.58.A358 C45 2013
Other classification:
  • 362.7330966 | Ch536
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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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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