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

• Autore: Leinaweaver Jessaca B
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.70985/32; 362.7098532
• Soggetto topico: Indian children - Peru - Ayachucho - Social conditions; Children - Family relationships - Peru - Ayacucho; Indians of South America - Kinship - Peru - Ayacucho; Kinship - Peru - Ayachucho; Adoption - Peru - Ayachucho; Social structure - Peru - Ayachucho; Interpersonal relations - Peru - Ayachucho
• Soggetto geografico: Ayacucho (Peru) Social conditions; Ayacucho (Peru) Moral conditions
• 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 Superacion: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The circulation of children
• ISBN: 1-283-10915-8; 9786613109156; 0-8223-9150-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809844003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Latin America otherwise.; e-Duke books scholarly collection.