Jessaca B Leinaweaver

The Circulation of Children

Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341819
• ISBN-10: 0822341816
• Artikelnr.: 23822751

Autorenporträt

Jessaca B. Leinaweaver

Inhaltsangabe

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