| Autor: |
Alber, Erdmute |
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Anthropos; 2003, Vol. 98 Issue 2, p445-460, 16p, 7 Charts |
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The article analyses a special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren among the Baatombu in northern Benin: the case of grandparents being the foster parents of their grandchildren. As social parenthood was not an exception but the norm for childhood among the Baatombu, most of the children grew up with foster parents, normally with aunts and uncles or with the classificatory grandparents. Thus, the article argues that the special foster relation between grandparents and grandchildren has to be understood within the whole framework of foster practices in Baatombu society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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