Child Fostering in West Africa - New Perspectives on Theory and Practices

Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice.

About the author

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 migration between southern Ghana and Germany 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Erdmute Alber (Editor), Jeannett Martin (Editor), Catrien Notermans (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2013
• EAN: 9789004250574
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25057-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interd
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories