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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777991303321

Autore

Leinaweaver Jessaca B

Titolo

The circulation of children [[electronic resource] ] : kinship, mobility, and morality in Ayacucho / / Jessaca B. Leinaweaver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-10915-8

9786613109156

0-8223-9150-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Latin America otherwise

Disciplina

362.70985/32

Soggetti

Indian children - Peru - Ayacucho - Social conditions

Children - Family relationships - Peru - Ayacucho

Indians of South America - Kinship - Peru - Ayacucho

Kinship - Peru - Ayacucho

Adoption - Peru - Ayacucho

Social structure - Peru - Ayacucho

Interpersonal relations - Peru - Ayacucho

Ayacucho (Peru) Social conditions

Ayacucho (Peru) Moral conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Moving Children in Ayacucho -- 1 Ayacucho: Histories of Violence and Ethnography -- 2 International Adoption: The Globalization of Kinship -- 3 Puericulture and Andean Orphanhood -- 4 Companionship and Custom: The Mechanics of Child Circulation -- 5 SuperacioĢn: The Strategic Uses of Child Circulation -- 6 Pertenecer: Knowledge and Kinship -- 7 Circulating Children, at Home and Abroad.

Sommario/riassunto

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.