Child Fostering in West Africa

New Perspectives on Theory and Practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25057-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies

Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alber, Erdmute

Martin, Jeannett

Notermans, Catrien

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erziehung in der Familie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

List of figures
Acknowledgments
List of contributors

Child fostering in West Africa: introduction
Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans

PART I
PERSPECTIVES ON THEORIES
1. A framework for the analysis of parent roles
Esther Goody

2. Adoption, fosterage and marriage
Suzanne Lallemand

3. The transfer of belonging: theories on child fostering in West Africa reviewed
Erdmute Alber

PART II
NEGOTIATING STRUCTURE: PERSPECTIVES FROM ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY AND LAW
4. Experiencing father’s kin and mother’s kin: kinship norms and practices from the perspective of foster children in northern Benin
Jeannett Martin

5. Relating affiliation and descent: brothers’ daughters as co-wives among the Bulsa in northern Ghana
Barbara Meier

6. Children coming and going: fostering and lifetime mobility in East Cameroon
Catrien Notermans

7. The promises of shared motherhood and the perils of detachment: a comparison of local and transnational child fostering in Cape Verde
Heike Drotbohm

8. Disputes over transfers of belonging in the Gold Coast in the 1870s: fosterage or debt pawning?
Cati Coe

9. Child adoption and foster care in the context of legal pluralism: case studies from Ghana
Ulrike Wanitzek

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Erdmute Alber holds the chair of Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University. Her empirical and theoretical interests are in kinship, inter-generational relations, childhood and parenting, as well as in political anthropology. She has realized long term fieldwork in Latin America and West Africa.

Jeannett Martin is a postdoctoral research fellow in Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University. She has done research on educational migration between southern Ghana and Germany and on child fostering and inter-ethnic relations in northern Benin.

Catrien Notermans is an anthropologist and senior researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She has been doing long-term fieldwork in West Africa, Europe and Asia, concentrating on kinship, gender, and religion.