Child fostering in West Africa : new perspectives on theory and practices

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Child fostering in West Africa : new perspectives on theory and practices

edited by Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans

(African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, v. 9)

Brill, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • A framework for the analysis of parent roles / Esther Goody
  • Adoption, fosterage, and alliance / Suzanne Lallemand
  • The transfer of belonging : theories on child fostering in West Africa reviewed / Erdmute Alber
  • Experiencing father's kin and mother's kin : kinship norms and practices from the perspective of foster children in northern Benin / Jeannett Martin
  • Relating affiliation and descent : brothers' daughters as co-wives among the Bulsa in northern Ghana / Barbara Meier
  • Children coming and going : fostering and lifetime mobility in east Cameroon / Catrien Notermans
  • The promises of shared motherhood and the perils of detachment : a comparison of local and transnational child fostering in Cape Verde / Heike Drotbohm
  • Disputes over transfers of belonging in the Gold coast in the 1870s : fosterage or debt pawning? / Cati Coe
  • Child adoption and foster care in the context of legal pluralism : case studies from Ghana / Ulrike Wanitzek

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