Milanich Children of Fate

Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850–1930
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9129-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 372 Seiten

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Examines the family in late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile to show how class order and state formation were tied to particular child-rearing conditions and practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milanich, Nara B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations and Tables ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: State, Class Society, and Children in Chile 1

I. Children and Strangers: Filiation in Law and Practice

1. The Civil Code and the Liberalization of Kinship 41

2. Paternity, Childhood, and the Making of Class 70

II. Children of Don Nobody: Kinship and Social Hierarchy

3. Kindred and Kinless: The People without History 103

4. Birthrights: Natal Dispossession and the State 128

III. Other Peoples' Children: The Politics of Child Circulation

5. Vernacular Kinships in the Shadow of the State 157

6. Child Bondage in the Liberal Republic 183

Epilogue: Young Marginals at the Centenary: One Hundred Years of Huachos 216

Appendix 239

Abbreviations 245

Glossary 247

Notes 249

Bibliography 309

Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

Nara B. Milanich is Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College.