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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

Latin America otherwise.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian children--Peru--Ayachucho--Social conditions.

Indian children.

Children--Family relationships--Peru--Ayacucho.

Children.

Indians of South America--Kinship--Peru--Ayacucho.

Indians of South America.

Kinship--Peru--Ayachucho.

Kinship.

Adoption--Peru--Ayachucho.

Adoption.

Social structure--Peru--Ayachucho.

Social structure.

Interpersonal relations--Peru--Ayachucho.

Interpersonal relations.

Ayacucho (Peru)--Social conditions.

Ayacucho (Peru).

Ayacucho (Peru)--Moral conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613109156

9781283109154

1283109158

9780822391500

0822391503

OCLC:

308677452