CIRCULATION OF CHILDREN - Kinship, Mobility, and Morality in Ayacucho

Informationen zum Autor Jessaca B. Leinaweaver is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. Klappentext Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historical practices respond to and are constrained by state and international efforts to concretize family and love. Zusammenfassung Explores 'child circulation!' informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. This book describes how child circulation is intimately linked to survival in the city! which has had to withstand colonialism! and economic isolation. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series vii Acknowledgments ix A Note on Translation xiii Introduction: Moving Children in Ayacucho 1 1. Ayacucho: Histories of Violence and Ethnography 21 2. International Adoption: The Globalization of Kinship 37 3. Puericulture and Andean Orphanhood 61 4. Companionship and Custom: The Mechanics of Child Circulation 81 5. Superación: The Strategic Uses of Child Circulation 105 6. Pertenecer: Knowledge and Kinship 134 7. Circulating Children, at Home and Abroad 154 Glossary 163 Notes 165 Bibliography 195 Index 213

Product details

• Authors: Leinaweaver, Jessaca Leinaweaver, Jessaca B Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2008
• EAN: 9780822341819
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4181-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology