Ambiguous Affects: Children, Kinship, and Community in Post-War Ayacucho. A Review of Jessaca B. Leinaweaver's <em>The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption and Morality in Andean Peru</em> (Durham: Duke UP, 2008)
Keywords
kinship, child circulation, Ayacucho
Keywords
kinship, child circulation, Ayacucho
Abstract
This engaging, ethnographically driven book is an exploration of child circulation, local moral idioms, and the differing logics that shape the work of international and state adoption agencies, as well as Andean concepts of kinship and belonging in post-war Ayacucho, Peru. A review of Jessaca B. Leinaweaver's The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption and Morality in Andean Peru (Durham: Duke UP, 2008).
Published
2010-04-01
Section
Reviews: Children and Society