Choosing to move: Child agency on Peru's margins

Childhood

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 375-392

  Leinaweaver, Jessaca B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agency; Andes; Anthropology; Child circulation; Childhood; Family; Kinship; Orphanage; Peru

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548071082     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: 14617013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568207079215     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Allen, C. (2002) The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. (Orig. pub. 1988.)
2. Anderson, J. (2004) ' The Intergenerational Contract Over Time in a Peruvian Shantytown ', paper presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
3. Ardener, E. (1972) ' Belief and the Problem of Women ', in J.S. La Fontaine (ed.) The Interpretation of Ritual: Essays in Honour of A.I. Richards, pp. 135 - 58. London: Tavistock.
4. Aris, P. (1962) Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
5. Bornstein, E. (2001) ' Child Sponsorship, Evangelism, and Belonging in the Work of World Vision Zimbabwe ', American Ethnologist 28: 595 - 622.
6. Boyden, J. and J.D. Berry (2004) Children and Youth on the Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement New York: Berghahn Books.
7. Bunster, X. and E.M. Chaney (1989) Sellers and Servants: Working Women in Lima, Peru. Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey.
8. Burns, K. (1999) Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press.
9. Colloredo-Mansfeld, R. (1998) ' " Dirty Indians", Radical Indigenas, and the Political Economy of Social Difference in Modern Ecuador ', Bulletin of Latin American Research 17: 185 - 205.
10. Comisin de la Verdad y Reconciliacin (2003) 'Informe Final'.
11. De la Cadena, M. (2000) Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
12. Fonseca, C. (1986) ' Orphanages, Foundlings, and Foster Mothers: The System of Child Circulation in a Brazilian Squatter Settlement ', Anthropological Quarterly 59: 15 - 27.
13. Fonseca, C. (2002) ' Inequality Near and Far: Adoption as Seen from the Brazilian Favelas', Law and Society Review 36: 397 - 431.
14. Fonseca, C. (2006) ' Transnational Influences in the Social Production of Adoptable Children: The Case of Brazil, ' International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 26: 154 - 71.
15. Garrard-Burnett, V. and D. Stoll (eds) (1993) Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
16. Goodenough, R.G. (1970) ' Adoption on Romonum, Truk ', in V. Carroll (ed.) Adoption in Eastern Oceania, pp. 314 - 42. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
17. Hardman, C. (1973) ' Can There be an Anthropology of Children ?', Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford IV: 85 - 99 ; reprinted in Childhood 8 (4). 2001: 501 - 17.
18. Hecht, T. (1998) At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
19. Hecht, T. (2002) ' Introduction.', in T. Hecht (ed.) Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society, pp. 3 - 20. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
20. Keesing, R.M. (1970) ' Kwaio fosterage ', American Anthropologist 72: 991 - 1020.
21. Klaiber, J. (1998) The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
22. Leinaweaver, J. (2007) ' On Moving Children: The Social Implications of Andean Child Circulation', American Ethnologist 34: 163 - 80.
23. Leinaweaver, J. (forthcoming) The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Mobility, and Morality in Peru. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
24. Lockhart, J. (1968) Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: A Social History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
25. Ludea Gonzalez, G.F. (2000) Un debido proceso de adopcin para nuestros nios y adolescentes. Lima, G&S Editores.
26. Milanich, N. (2004) ' The Casa de Huerfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile', Journal of Social History 38: 311 - 40.
27. Oviedo, J. (1999) El Perú y su futuro: dos paradigmas culturales sobre infancia. Lima: Instituto de Defensa Legal.
28. Paerregaard, K. (1996) ' Conversion, Migration, and Social Identity: The Spread of Protestantism in the Peruvian Andes ', Ethnos 59: 168 - 86.
29. PAR (Proyecto de Apoyo a la Repoblacin) (2001) ' Censo por la Paz '; at: www.mimdes.gob.pe/par/index.htm (accessed 16 December 2003 ).
30. Parreas, R.S. (2005) Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
31. Poole, D. (1997) Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
32. Poole, D. and G. Rnique (1992) Peru: Time of Fear. London: Latin America Bureau.
33. Premo, B. (2002) ' Minor Offenses: Youth, Crime, and Law in Eighteenth-Century Lima ', in T. Hecht (ed.) Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society, pp. 114 - 38. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
34. Reynolds, P. (1996) Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe. Athens: Ohio University Press.
35. Rubin, G. (1975) ' The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex ', in R.R. Reiter (ed.) Toward an Anthropology of Women, pp. 157 - 210. New York and London: Monthly Review Press.
36. Scheper-Hughes, N. and C.F. Sargent (1998) Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Berkeley: University of California Press.
37. Schildkrout, E. (1973) ' The Fostering of Children in Ghana', Urban Anthropology 2: 48 - 73.
38. Schildkrout, E. (1978) ' Age and Gender in Hausa Society: Socio-Economic Roles of Children in Urban Kano ', in J.S. La Fontaine (ed.) Sex and Age as Principles of Social Differentiation. London: Academic Press.
39. Schildkrout, E. (1980) ' Children's Work Reconsidered', International Social Science Journal 32: 479 - 89.
40. Seligmann, L. (2004) Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy Among Market Women of Cuzco. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
41. Spivak, G.C. (1988) ' Can the Subaltern Speak ?', in C. Nelson and L. Grossberg (eds) Marxism and the Interpretation of Cultures. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
42. Stephens, S. (ed.) (1995 a) Children and the Politics of Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
43. Stephens, S. (1995 b) ' Children and the Politics of Culture in "Late Capitalism" ', in S. Stephens (ed.) Children and the Politics of Culture, pp. 3 - 48. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
44. Stoll, D. (1990) Is Latin America Turning Protestant ? Berkeley: University of California Press.
45. Torres, M. d. l. A. (2003) The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the US, and the Promise of a Better Future Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
46. Unicef (2004) ' At a Glance: Peru '; at: www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ peru_statistics.htmland/peru_1645.html (accessed December 2004 ).
47. Valderrama, R. and C. Escalante (1996) Andean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamn. Austin, University of Texas Press.
48. Weismantel, M. (1995) ' Making Kin: Kinship Theory and Zumbagua Adoptions ', American Ethnologist 22: 685 - 709.
49. Weismantel, M. (2001) Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
50. Whitten, N.E. (1981) Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press.
51. Zelizer, V.A. (1985) Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.