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The circulation of children : kinship, adoption, and morality in Andean Peru

Title
The circulation of children : kinship, adoption, and morality in Andean Peru / Jessaca B. Leinaweaver.
Author
Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Description
xiv, 225 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Latin America otherwise
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212) and index.
Contents
Introduction: moving children in Ayacucho -- Ayacucho: histories of violence and ethnography -- International adoption: the globalization of kinship -- Puericulture and Andean orphanhood -- Companionship and custom: the mechanics of child circulation -- Superación: the strategic uses of child circulation -- Pertenecer: knowledge and kinship -- Circulating children, at home and abroad.
Call Number
JFE 09-884
ISBN
  • 9780822341819 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822341816 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822341970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822341972 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008013529
OCLC
209334798
Author
Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.
Title
The circulation of children : kinship, adoption, and morality in Andean Peru / Jessaca B. Leinaweaver.
Imprint
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series
Latin America otherwise
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 09-884
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