{"product_id":"children-of-fate-9780822345749","title":"Children of Fate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscusses the history of child-rearing conditions and practices in late 19th and early 20th century Chile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable historical account of the intertwining of family law, vernacular kinship practices, and class in late-19th-century Chile.” - Clara Han, \u003ci\u003ePoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, Milanich provides a richly textured study of childhood\u003cbr\u003eand filiation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile that culls important stories from new archives and analyzes the liberal state’s role in ‘generating kinlessness.’. . . The resulting study provides an insightful and often heart-rending account of the vicissitudes of children without parents—and adults without kin—in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile.”\u003cbr\u003e - Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through a study of deeply rooted sociocultural structures . . . , \u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to understand how inequality has been produced, reproduced and perpetuated over time, resisting the cycles of economic growth and public policies that would supposedly end it. . . . \u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e stands out . . . for the importance of its subject and for contributing to a necessary and urgent discussion in Chilean society, reminding us that reducing social inequality cannot be left to economic growth but requires a cultural change that . . . even today has yet to materialize.\" \u003cbr\u003e - Pablo Whipple, \u003ci\u003eA Contracorriente\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this beautifully written and well-crafted book, Nara B. Milanich convincingly argues that the family served as the nexus for class formation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chile. . . . [T]his study makes a major contribution to the burgeoning historiography of children in Latin America. In addition, \u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e should become required reading for students of class and state formation beyond Latin America.” - Robert Alegre,\u003ci\u003e Labour\/Le Travail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e is truly original, with an extraordinary level of insight and analysis. Nara B. Milanich shows how class identity was manipulated by the liberal state in a way that maintained hierarchies, and she illustrates her arguments with rich examples gleaned from extensive archival research. A brilliant, first-rate book.”—\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Kuznesof\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHousehold Economy and Urban Development: Sao Paulo, 1765 to 1836\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e tells a thoroughly engrossing, emotionally moving story about children in Latin American history. Nara B. Milanich’s extremely powerful and original arguments about family, law, class relations, and state formation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America have major ramifications for rethinking Latin American social and labor history and will undoubtedly help reshape the agenda of future social and political history in the field.”—\u003cb\u003eHeidi Tinsman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePartners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable historical account of the intertwining of family law, vernacular kinship practices, and class in late-19th-century Chile.” -- Clara Han * PoLAR *\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, Milanich provides a richly textured study of childhood\u003cbr\u003eand filiation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile that culls important stories from new archives and analyzes the liberal state’s role in ‘generating kinlessness.’. . . The resulting study provides an insightful and often heart-rending account of the vicissitudes of children without parents—and adults without kin—in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile.”\u003cbr\u003e -- Elizabeth Quay Hutchison * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e“In this beautifully written and well-crafted book, Nara B. Milanich convincingly argues that the family served as the nexus for class formation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chile. . . . [T]his study makes a major contribution to the burgeoning historiography of children in Latin America. In addition, \u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e should become required reading for students of class and state formation beyond Latin America.” -- Robert Alegre * Labour\/Le Travail *\u003cbr\u003e\"Through a study of deeply rooted sociocultural structures . . . , \u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to understand how inequality has been produced, reproduced and perpetuated over time, resisting the cycles of economic growth and public policies that would supposedly end it. . . . \u003ci\u003eChildren of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e stands out . . . for the importance of its subject and for contributing to a necessary and urgent discussion in Chilean society, reminding us that reducing social inequality cannot be left to economic growth but requires a cultural change that . . . even today has yet to materialize.\" \u003cbr\u003e -- Pablo Whipple * A Contracorriente *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations and Tables ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: State, Class Society, and Children in Chile 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Children and Strangers: Filiation in Law and Practice \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Civil Code and the Liberalization of Kinship 41\u003cbr\u003e 2. Paternity, Childhood, and the Making of Class 70\u003cbr\u003e II. Children of Don Nobody: Kinship and Social Hierarchy \u003cbr\u003e 3. Kindred and Kinless: The People without History 103\u003cbr\u003e 4. Birthrights: Natal Dispossession and the State 128\u003cbr\u003e III. Other Peoples' Children: The Politics of Child Circulation \u003cbr\u003e 5. Vernacular Kinships in the Shadow of the State 157\u003cbr\u003e 6. Child Bondage in the Liberal Republic 183\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Young Marginals at the Centenary: One Hundred Years of \u003ci\u003eHuachos\u003c\/i\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 239\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations 245\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 247\u003cbr\u003e Notes 249\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 309\u003cbr\u003e Index 333","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406057087319,"sku":"9780822345749","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822345749.jpg?v=1730494384","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-of-fate-9780822345749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}