{"product_id":"transfers-of-belonging-child-fostering-in-west-africa-in-the-20th-century-9789004359802","title":"Transfers of Belonging: Child Fostering in West Africa in the 20th Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Glossary  Introduction  Baatombu Peasants  National and Regional Embeddedness   Social Relations   Kinship Terminology   Fieldwork and Methods  Field Research   Thick Participation   Childhood Studies   Norm, Practice, Emotion   1 Theoretical Approaches and Concepts on Child Fostering  A Structural-functionalist Perspective: Parenthood and Social Reproduction  Bearing and Begetting: Birth Parenthood   Status Entitlement: Legal Parenthood   Nurturance, Training and Sponsorship: Social Parenthood   Delegation of Parenthood: Types, Reasons and Functions   Discussion   A Structuralist Perspective: The Circulation of Children  Discussion   Other Perspectives  The Turn to the Actor   Transfers of Imagined Belonging   2 Parenthood in Rural Borgu  Birth Parenthood  An Open Secret   Birth   Giving Birth in the Health Centre   Rites of Transition   Everyday Practices   Acquiring Knowledge   Yearning   Happy Foster Children   Conceptions of Parenthood   Motherhood   Fatherhood   Child Fostering  Decisions   Transferring a Child   Possible Foster Parents   Same Sex   Kinship   Hierarchy   Order of Siblings   Reasons for Child Fostering  Kinship Cohesion   Preventing Regressive Behaviour in Children   Social Parenthood Supports the Hierarchies   Children as Workers   Childlessness   Crisis Fostering   Women’s Interests   Child Fostering, Gender and Marriage  Exchanging Children and Women   Conflicts  Avoidance and Indirect Communication   Open Conflicts   Self-reliance   Foster Parents   Running Away   Arguments against Child Fostering  Kinship Conflicts   Schooling   A Bad Investment   3 Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century  Precolonial Times  Everyday Realities   Violence and Gifts   Oedipus in Africa?   Colonial Changes  End of the Raids   New Conceptions   Sero Toro Tuunku and his Foster Son   New Life Courses   Christian Missions   The Introduction of Schools   State Policy   The Post-colonial Period  Urban Baatombu Households   Expansion of Educational Facilities   Between Town and Village: A Conflict  Child Fostering in Urban Areas: Cotonou and Parakou  Urban Households   Mobility and Education   Household Composition   Fostering and Education   Belonging   Well-being   Exploitation?   Generations   Child Fostering in the Villages of Tɛbɔ, Kika and Yarɔ  Frequency of Child Fostering   Birth Rate and Child Mortality   Gender   Schooling and Fostering   Family Relationship between Children and their Foster Parents   On the threshold of the 21st Century: Two Conflicts  Rafa   Djamila   Conclusion  Appendix  Names and Interviews  Interviews Cited References Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210744914263,"sku":"9789004359802","price":66.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transfers-of-belonging-child-fostering-in-west-africa-in-the-20th-century-9789004359802","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}