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Article: The Casa de Huerfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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Abstract: Nara Milanich, "The Casa de Huerfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile"
This essay examines the Casa de Huerfanos, the largest and most important orphanage in Santiago, Chile in the late nineteenth century, through the lens of child circulation. By child circulation, I refer to a diverse constellation of practices, from apprenticeship to adoption, in which minors were reared outside their natal households by unrelated caretakers. Child circulation has been a ubiquitous practice in Latin American and Caribbean societies from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Using notarial and judicial records, I attempt to reconstruct ...