Transfers of belonging child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century
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, no...
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Leiden, Boston
Brill
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
volume 19 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | "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 Includes bibliographic references (pages [249]-261) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 269 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789004359802 978-90-04-35980-2 |