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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jessaca B Leinaweaver |
| ISBN: | 9780822341819 0822341816 9780822341970 0822341972 |
| OCLC Number: | 209334798 |
| Description: | xiv, 225 p. : ill., 2 maps ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Latin America otherwise. |
| Responsibility: | Jessaca B. Leinaweaver. |
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"The Circulation of Children is a real contribution to several fields including kinship studies and Andean studies. Jessaca B. Leinaweaver has done substantial fieldwork in an important region of South America on a topic of great current interest and lasting scholarly importance."--Mary Weismantel, author of Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes "In this highly readable, quite original study of the practice of child circulation, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver discusses the social, economic, racial, gender, legal, and moral contours of that practice; locates it in a complex web of local, regional, and national vectors of culture and power; and offers a nuanced interpretation of it as neither entirely benevolent nor completely exploitative. Leinaweaver is respectful and empathetic, and her book is rich in ethnographic information, thick descriptions, and personal stories."--Carlos Aguirre, author of The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935 Read more...
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- Indian children -- Peru -- Ayacucho (Dept.) -- Social conditions.
- Children -- Family relationships -- Peru -- Ayacucho (Dept.)
- Indians of South America -- Kinship -- Peru -- Ayacucho (Dept.)
- Kinship -- Peru -- Ayacucho (Dept.)
- Adoption -- Peru -- Ayacucho (Dept.)
- Social structure -- Peru -- Ayacucho (Dept.)
- Interpersonal relations -- Peru -- Ayacucho (Dept.)
- Ayacucho (Peru : Dept.) -- Social conditions.
- Ayacucho (Peru : Dept.) -- Moral conditions.
- Amérindien (peuple) -- parenté -- Ayacucho (Pérou)
- adoption -- Amérindien (peuple) -- Ayacucho (Pérou)
- enfant -- famille -- parenté -- Ayacucho (Pérou)
- enfant -- fosterage -- Ayacucho (Pérou)
