ISBN:
978-90-04-365980-2
,
978-90-04-36041-9 /eBook
ISSN:
1574-6925
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xiv, 269 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Serie:
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 19
Originaltitel:
Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel
Schlagwort(e):
Westafrika Benin
;
Borgu
;
Elternschaft
;
Kindheit
;
Familie
;
Familienrecht
;
Verwandtschaft
;
Adoption
;
Pflegekindschaft
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Beziehungen Vater-Kind
;
Beziehungen Mutter-Kind
;
Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
Kurzfassung:
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.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Anmerkung:
"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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