| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies ; v. 9 |
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African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 9.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Foster children -- Care -- Africa, West
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Foster home care -- Africa, West
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Foster parents -- Africa, West
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
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Foster children -- Care
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Foster home care
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Foster parents
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West Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alber, Erdmute
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Martin, Jeannett
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Notermans, Catrien, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2013004290 |
| ISBN |
9789004250611 |
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9004250611 |
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