ISBN:
978-90-04-36041-9 /eBook
,
978-90-04-365980-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 269 Seiten)
,
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Series Statement:
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 19
Uniform Title:
Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel
Keywords:
Westafrika Benin
;
Borgu
;
Elternschaft
;
Kindheit
;
Familie
;
Familienrecht
;
Verwandtschaft
;
Adoption
;
Pflegekindschaft
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Beziehungen Vater-Kind
;
Beziehungen Mutter-Kind
;
Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Glossary 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering -- 2. Parenthood in Rural Borgu -- 3. Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix -- References -- Index of persons -- Index
Note:
"Revised and tightened version" of Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel: Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehorigkeit in Westafrika by Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
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