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Transfers of Belonging

Erdmute Alber
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      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.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Erdmute Alber EAN: 9789004359802 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 453 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-05-03 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      West Africa, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Age groups: children, Sociology: family and relationships, Social and cultural anthropology, Adoption and fostering

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      Erdmute Alber (Ph.D. 1997) is chair of Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University (Germany). She has undertaken long-term field research in West Africa, especially in northern Benin. She has directed several research projects on kinship, generational relations and child fostering in West Africa and published widely in the field of political anthropology, childhood, kinship, intergenerational relations and care.
      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.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Erdmute Alber EAN: 9789004359802 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 453 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-05-03 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      West Africa, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Age groups: children, Sociology: family and relationships, Social and cultural anthropology, Adoption and fostering

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      Erdmute Alber (Ph.D. 1997) is chair of Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University (Germany). She has undertaken long-term field research in West Africa, especially in northern Benin. She has directed several research projects on kinship, generational relations and child fostering in West Africa and published widely in the field of political anthropology, childhood, kinship, intergenerational relations and care.

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