Jessaca Leinaweaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessaca Leinaweaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessaca |
| FAMILY NAME | Leinaweaver |
| SIGNATURE | LEINAWEAVER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Care as social action: Child care and children caring in Yauyos, Peru
Children are deeply enmeshed in webs of care which have strong and weak points and gaps, and within them, children are active providers, not just recipients (or refusers). Drawing on a comparative group fieldwork project across six rural Peruvian towns in 2008, we found that children are centrally involved as caregivers in an ecosystem of care that draws together plants and animals and humans, water, earth, and mountains. The mode of care often p…
Adoption
What is adoption? To answer this question is to jump directly into one of the key controversies of anthropology: anthropologists, associated for over a century with the close study of kinship relationships, are quite hesitant to privilege ‘biological kinship’ over ‘social kinship’, and the category ‘adoption’ may unwittingly do that. On the other hand, reviewing what anthropologists have learned about adoption, fostering, and child welfare reveal…
Andalucía, the Americas, and the Anthropological Object
The geography of transnational adoption: Kin and Place in Globalization
International adoption involves crossing borders; it invokes space and geography as adoptive parents imagine distant countries, as children are moved from one nation to another, and as adoptees and their families return to their countries of origin. The spatiality of belonging and identity – but also of trauma and violence – are central concerns for the people involved and to the operations of their cultural, political, and legal practice. Yet su…
Geographies of generation: Age Restrictions in International Adoption
International adoption relocates minors, and only minors, from one country to another. The centrality of age to adoptive migration may prevent us from seeing the significance of generation: the prospective parent's age is also examined and evaluated for its relationship to the child's age and what this relationship will mean for the creation of a family. Because international adoption results in children crossing borders to enter new kinship form…
The Quiet Migration Redux: International Adoption, Race, and Difference
Demographers frame international adoption primarily as an unusual kind of migration. This insight offers anthropologists new ways to think about kinship. Drawing on demographic scholarship and anthropological kinship and migration studies, this article develops a new and hybrid approach to international adoption as a complex social process that is both migratory and productive of kinship. Viewing international adoption as a form of migration reve…
Belonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption by Barbara Yngvesson
Alejarse como proceso social: Niños y ancianos «abandonados» en Ayacucho
En investigaciones previas sobre el acogimiento familiar y la adopción en Ayacucho, se ha podido descubrir cómo los ayacuchanos adquieren y producen relaciones sociales. Mientras negocian creativamente los discursos y espacios construidos simultáneamente por instituciones, comunidades, y estructuras sociales, van adquiriendo nuevas formas de relacionarse. Este artículo discute el proceso opuesto: el deshacerse de relaciones de parentesco, y el pr…
Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 by Nara B. Milanich
Losing Lévi-Strauss: The 2009 Year in Cultural Anthropology
In 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss died at the age of 100. In this article, I draw on frameworks that were central to his work to structure my discussion of the key themes in cultural anthropology publications over the past year. The four subjects I consider in this review are kinship, taxonomy, bricolage, and traveling
Caring for Aging Parents in Peru: Social Obligations and Economic Change
Kinship and Adopting Strategies in Peru
Losing Lévi-Strauss: The 2009 Year in Cultural Anthropology
In 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss died at the age of 100. In this article, I draw on frameworks that were central to his work to structure my discussion of the key themes in cultural anthropology publications over the past year. The four subjects I consider in this review are kinship, taxonomy, bricolage, and traveling
The geography of transnational adoption: Kin and Place in Globalization
International adoption involves crossing borders; it invokes space and geography as adoptive parents imagine distant countries, as children are moved from one nation to another, and as adoptees and their families return to their countries of origin. The spatiality of belonging and identity – but also of trauma and violence – are central concerns for the people involved and to the operations of their cultural, political, and legal practice. Yet su…
Geographies of generation: Age Restrictions in International Adoption
International adoption relocates minors, and only minors, from one country to another. The centrality of age to adoptive migration may prevent us from seeing the significance of generation: the prospective parent's age is also examined and evaluated for its relationship to the child's age and what this relationship will mean for the creation of a family. Because international adoption results in children crossing borders to enter new kinship form…
Alejarse como proceso social: Niños y ancianos «abandonados» en Ayacucho
En investigaciones previas sobre el acogimiento familiar y la adopción en Ayacucho, se ha podido descubrir cómo los ayacuchanos adquieren y producen relaciones sociales. Mientras negocian creativamente los discursos y espacios construidos simultáneamente por instituciones, comunidades, y estructuras sociales, van adquiriendo nuevas formas de relacionarse. Este artículo discute el proceso opuesto: el deshacerse de relaciones de parentesco, y el pr…
Caring for Aging Parents in Peru: Social Obligations and Economic Change
Adoption
What is adoption? To answer this question is to jump directly into one of the key controversies of anthropology: anthropologists, associated for over a century with the close study of kinship relationships, are quite hesitant to privilege ‘biological kinship’ over ‘social kinship’, and the category ‘adoption’ may unwittingly do that. On the other hand, reviewing what anthropologists have learned about adoption, fostering, and child welfare reveal…
Kinship and Adopting Strategies in Peru
Caring for Aging Parents in Peru: Social Obligations and Economic Change
Alejarse como proceso social: Niños y ancianos «abandonados» en Ayacucho
En investigaciones previas sobre el acogimiento familiar y la adopción en Ayacucho, se ha podido descubrir cómo los ayacuchanos adquieren y producen relaciones sociales. Mientras negocian creativamente los discursos y espacios construidos simultáneamente por instituciones, comunidades, y estructuras sociales, van adquiriendo nuevas formas de relacionarse. Este artículo discute el proceso opuesto: el deshacerse de relaciones de parentesco, y el pr…
Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 by Nara B. Milanich
Losing Lévi-Strauss: The 2009 Year in Cultural Anthropology
In 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss died at the age of 100. In this article, I draw on frameworks that were central to his work to structure my discussion of the key themes in cultural anthropology publications over the past year. The four subjects I consider in this review are kinship, taxonomy, bricolage, and traveling
Belonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption by Barbara Yngvesson
The Quiet Migration Redux: International Adoption, Race, and Difference
Demographers frame international adoption primarily as an unusual kind of migration. This insight offers anthropologists new ways to think about kinship. Drawing on demographic scholarship and anthropological kinship and migration studies, this article develops a new and hybrid approach to international adoption as a complex social process that is both migratory and productive of kinship. Viewing international adoption as a form of migration reve…
The geography of transnational adoption: Kin and Place in Globalization
International adoption involves crossing borders; it invokes space and geography as adoptive parents imagine distant countries, as children are moved from one nation to another, and as adoptees and their families return to their countries of origin. The spatiality of belonging and identity – but also of trauma and violence – are central concerns for the people involved and to the operations of their cultural, political, and legal practice. Yet su…
Geographies of generation: Age Restrictions in International Adoption
International adoption relocates minors, and only minors, from one country to another. The centrality of age to adoptive migration may prevent us from seeing the significance of generation: the prospective parent's age is also examined and evaluated for its relationship to the child's age and what this relationship will mean for the creation of a family. Because international adoption results in children crossing borders to enter new kinship form…
Andalucía, the Americas, and the Anthropological Object
Adoption
What is adoption? To answer this question is to jump directly into one of the key controversies of anthropology: anthropologists, associated for over a century with the close study of kinship relationships, are quite hesitant to privilege ‘biological kinship’ over ‘social kinship’, and the category ‘adoption’ may unwittingly do that. On the other hand, reviewing what anthropologists have learned about adoption, fostering, and child welfare reveal…
Care as social action: Child care and children caring in Yauyos, Peru
Children are deeply enmeshed in webs of care which have strong and weak points and gaps, and within them, children are active providers, not just recipients (or refusers). Drawing on a comparative group fieldwork project across six rural Peruvian towns in 2008, we found that children are centrally involved as caregivers in an ecosystem of care that draws together plants and animals and humans, water, earth, and mountains. The mode of care often p…
Sociology (10 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Kinship (6 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Citation (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)