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Child fostering in West Africa [electronic resource] : new perspectives on theory and practices / edited by Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans

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Boston : Brill, 2013.
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xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Alber, Erdmute, Martin, Jeannett, and Notermans, Catrien, 1966-
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Contents
Introduction / Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans -- A framework for the analysis of parent roles / Esther Goody -- Adoption, fosterage and marriage / 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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9789004250574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9789004250611 (e-book)
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Includes index.
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