Title The circulation of children : kinship, mobility, and morality in Ayacucho / Jessaca B. Leinaweaver

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) : illustrations Series Latin America otherwise Latin America otherwise. Contents Introduction: Moving Children in Ayacucho -- 1 Ayacucho: Histories of Violence and Ethnography -- 2 International Adoption: The Globalization of Kinship -- 3 Puericulture and Andean Orphanhood -- 4 Companionship and Custom: The Mechanics of Child Circulation -- 5 Superación: The Strategic Uses of Child Circulation -- 6 Pertenecer: Knowledge and Kinship -- 7 Circulating Children, at Home and Abroad Summary Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historical practices respond to and are constrained by state and international efforts to concretize family and love Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Indian children -- Peru -- Ayacucho -- Social conditions Children -- Family relationships -- Peru -- Ayacucho Indians of South America -- Kinship -- Peru -- Ayacucho Kinship -- Peru -- Ayacucho Adoption -- Peru -- Ayacucho Social structure -- Peru -- Ayacucho Interpersonal relations -- Peru -- Ayacucho Adoption Children -- Family relationships Indian children -- Social conditions Indians of South America -- Kinship Interpersonal relations Kinship Moral conditions Social conditions Social structure SUBJECT Ayacucho (Peru) -- Social conditions Ayacucho (Peru) -- Moral conditions Subject Peru -- Ayacucho Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822391500 0822391503

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