Child Fostering in West Africa
New Perspectives on Theory and Practices
Erdmute Alber, University of Bayreuth, Jeannett Martin, University of Bayreuth, Catrien Notermans, Radboud University
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Biographical note
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 return migration in southern Ghana 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.
Jeannett Martin is a postdoctoral research fellow in Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University. She has done research on educational return migration in southern Ghana 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.
Readership
All interested in anthropology, kinship, childhood, mobility, and West Africa.
Table of contents
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
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
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