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| Title: | Transfers of Belonging: Child Fostering in West Africa in the 20th Century |
| Author: | Alber, Erdmute |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Issue: | 19 |
| Pages: | 244 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) (ISSN 1574-6925) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 9789004360419 |
| Geographic terms: | Benin West Africa |
| Subjects: | foster care children |
| External link: | https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/A00004243.pdf |
| Abstract: | The author 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, this book offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting. |
