Includes index.
Introduction / Erdmute Alber, Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans
A framework for the analysis of parent roles / Esther Goody
Adoption, fosterage and marriage / Suzanne Lallemand
The transfer of belonging: theories on child fostering in West Africa reviewed / Erdmute Alber
Experiencing father's kin and mother's kin: kinship norms and practices from the perspective of foster children in northern Benin / Jeannett Martin
Relating affiliation and descent: brothers' daughters as co-wives among the Bulsa in northern Ghana / Barbara Meier
Children coming and going: fostering and lifetime mobility in east Cameroon / Catrien Notermans
The promises of shared motherhood and the perils of detachment: a comparison of local and transnational child fostering in Cape Verde / Heike Drotbohm
Disputes over transfers of belonging in the Gold coast in the 1870s: fosterage or debt pawning? / Cati Coe
Child adoption and foster care in the context of legal pluralism: case studies from Ghana / Ulrike Wanitzek.
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Child fostering in West Africa : new perspectives on theory and practices. ISBN 9789004250574. Published by Brill in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
