Transfers of belonging : : child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century / / by Erdmute Alber.
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...
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Superior document: | Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies ; Volume 19 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series).
Volume 19. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (283 pages). |
Notes: | "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." |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Theoretical approaches and concepts on child fostering
- Parenthood in rural Borgu
- Child fostering in the twentieth century
- Conclusion.