Transfers of Belonging

Child Fostering in West Africa in the 20th Century

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19940868
AutoresErdmute Alber (0009-0002-4078-4391, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Data de publicação2018-04-10
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoTransfers of Belonging (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004360419
OpenAlexW2803538169
ISBN9789004360419
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas35

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

Colonialism · Embeddedness · Ethnography · Frame (networking) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Raising (metalworking) · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Social Policies and Family