TY  - BOOK
TI  - Transfers of Belonging: Child Fostering in West Africa in the 20th Century
AU  - Alber, Erdmute
PY  - 2018
PB  - BRILL
LA  - eng
KW  - Children-Africa, West
KW  - Families-Africa, West
KW  - Foster children-Africa, West
KW  - Bariba (African people)
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Socialization
KW  - Africa, West-Social life and customs
KW  - Westafrika
KW  - Pflegekind
AB  - Intro -- Transfers of Belonging: Child Fostering in West Africa in the 20th Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Research Site: Baatombu Peasants -- Fieldwork and Methods -- 1 Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering -- A Structural-functionalist Perspective -- A Structuralist Perspective -- The Turn to the Actors -- Transfers of Imagined Belonging -- 2 Parenthood in Rural Borgu -- Birth Parenting -- Fostering a Child -- Reasons for Fostering children -- Fostering, Gender and Marriage -- Conflicts -- Arguments against Child Fostering -- 3 Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century -- Precolonial Times -- Colonial Changes -- The Post-colonial Period -- Between Town and Village: A Conflict -- Fostering in Urban Areas: Cotonou and Parakou -- Fostering in the Rural Areas: Tɛbɔ, Kika and Yarɔ -- On the Threshold of the 21st Century: Two Conflicts -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Interviews Cited -- Sources -- References -- Index of persons -- Index
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SN  - 9789004360419
T2  - Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 19
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