Jessaca Leinaweaver is a cultural anthropologist with research interests in anthropological demography; children, fostering, and families in Andean Peru; and transnational adoption and migration from Peru to Spain.
| Anderson, Jeanine, Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "La educación rural y sus micro contextos: Lecciones de Yauyos." Revista Peruana de Investigación Educativa, vol. 15, no. 19, 2024. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Museum families: Canadian kinship and material culture." Museum Anthropology, 2024. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca, Anderson, Jeanine. "Working together, learning apart: a multicommunity study in rural Peru." Ethnography and Education, 2024, pp. 1-19. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Caring between the lines: trying to know others in Andean Peru." American Ethnologist, 2023. |
| Marre, Diana, Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Chapter 5. Disappearance via Adoption: On Missing Children in Spain (1936–96).", Berghahn Books, 2023, pp. 119-141. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca (translated by Rachel Shpuntoff). "El Regreso de la Migración Silenciosa: Adopción Internacional, Raza y Diferencia." Revista del Museo de Antropología, vol. 16, no. 2, 2023, pp. 369-380. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca and Diana Marre. "Adoption and Fostering." The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, edited by Sallie Han and Cecilia Tomori, Routledge, 2022. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca, and Milagros Caroline Forrester. "Adoption knowledge: a citizen-scientific use of 'FamilySearch' to understand Peruvian adoption." Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2022. |
| Marre, Diana, and Jessaca Leinaweaver. "Solidarity exclusions: Problematizing kinship and humanitarianism from the perspective of transnational adoption." American Anthropologist, vol. 125, no. 1, 2022, pp. 9-22. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "What is Adopted in Dobbs?." Adoption & Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2022. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Counter-Demography: Situated Caring for the Aged in Andean Peru." Medical Anthropology, 2021, pp. 1-15. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Hacia una antropología de la ingratitud: Notas a partir de las relaciones de parentesco andino." Etnografías Contemporáneas, vol. 5, no. 8, 2019. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Papering the Origins: Place-Making, Privacy, and Kinship in Spanish International Adoption." Genealogy, vol. 3, no. 4, 2019, pp. 50. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Review of 'Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States.' Kathryn A. Mariner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019)." PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 44, no. 1, 2019, pp. 232-234. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Transnational Adoption." The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship, edited by Sandra Bamford, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 391-411. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Adoption." Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology , edited by Felix Stein, Sian Lazar, Rupert Stasch, Joel Robbins, Andrew Sanchez, Matei Candea & Hildegard Diemberger, 2018. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Be Fruitful and Multiply: Kinship, Sociality and Non-Reproduction. (Multi-book review.)." Medical Anthropology, vol. 37, no. 7, 2018, pp. 611-619. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Kinship, Households, and Sociality.”." The Andean World, edited by Linda J. Seligmann and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, Routledge, 2018, pp. 235-248. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "The Unsustainability of Transnational Adoption in La Vergüenza." Adoption & Culture, vol. 5, 2017. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B., Marre, Diana, Frekko, Susan E. "‘Homework’ and transnational adoption screening in Spain: the co-production of home and family." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2017. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Transatlantic unity on display: the “white legend” and the “pact of silence” in Madrid’s Museum of the Americas." History and Anthropology, vol. 28, no. 1, 2016, pp. 39-57. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Adoption, Demography of." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by James D. Wright, Elsevier, 2015, pp. 136–141. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Aging, Relatedness, and Social Abandonment in Highland Peru." Anthropology & Aging, vol. 29, no. 2, 2015, pp. 44-46. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Geographies of generation: age restrictions in international adoption." Social & Cultural Geography, 2015, pp. 1-14. |
| Frekko, Susan E., Leinaweaver, Jessaca B., Marre, Diana. "How (not) to talk about adoption: On communicative vigilance in Spain." American Ethnologist, vol. 42, no. 4, 2015, pp. 703-719. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "How Internationally Adoptive Parents Become Transnational Parents: ‘Cultural’ Orientation as Transnational Care." Anthropological Perspectives on Care: Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course, edited by Erdmute Alber and Heike Drotbohm, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca, van Wichelen, Sonja. "The geography of transnational adoption: kin and place in globalization." Social & Cultural Geography, vol. 16, no. 5, 2015, pp. 499-507. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Transnational Fathers, Good Providers, and the Silences of Adoption." Globalized Fatherhood, edited by Marcia Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin, and José-Alberto Navarro, Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 81-102. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Broken links, enduring ties: American adoption across race, class, and nation. Seligmann, Linda J. viii, 336 pp., illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press, 2013. £24.50 (paper)." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 20, no. 4, 2014, pp. 804-805. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Informal Kinship-Based Fostering Around the World: Anthropological Findings." Child Development Perspectives, vol. 8, no. 3, 2014, pp. 131-136. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "The Quiet Migration Redux: International Adoption, Race, and Difference." vol. 73, no. 1, 2014, pp. 62-71. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain. Duke University Press, 2013. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Practice Mothers." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 38, no. 2, 2013, pp. 405-430. |
| Leinaweaver, J. B. "Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption, by Laura Briggs. (Review.)." Hispanic American Historical Review , vol. 93, no. 2, 2013, pp. 336-338. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Toward an Anthropology of Ingratitude: Notes from Andean Kinship." Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 55, no. 03, 2013, pp. 554-578. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "El desplazamiento infantil: las implicaciones sociales de la circulación infantil en los Andes." Scripta Nova, vol. XVI, no. 395, 2012, pp. 13. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Little Strangers: International Adoption and American Kinship. A Review Essay. (Multi-book review.)." Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 54, no. 01, 2012, pp. 206-216. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Belonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption" by Barbara Yngvesson. (Review.)." American Anthropologist, vol. 113, no. 1, 2011, pp. 190-191. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Kinship Paths to and from the New Europe: A Unified Analysis of Peruvian Adoption and Migration." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 2, 2011, pp. 380-400. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca. "Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930" by Nara B. Milanich. (Review.)." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 15, no. 2, 2010, pp. 492-494. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics," edited by Peter Wade. (Review.)." American Ethnologist, vol. 37, no. 2, 2010, pp. 396-397. |
| Leinaweaver J. "[Distancing as a Social Process: 'Abandoned' Young and Old in Ayacucho.]." Anthropologica, vol. 28, no. 28, 2010, pp. 139-162. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Adoption and the Politics of Modern Families." Scholar & Feminist Online, 2010. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Alejarse como proceso social: niños y ancianos ‘abandonados’ en Ayacucho." Anthropologica, vol. 28, 2010, pp. 139-162. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Losing Lévi-Strauss: The 2009 Year in Cultural Anthropology." American Anthropologist, vol. 112, no. 2, 2010, pp. 219-227. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Outsourcing care: how Peruvian migrants meet transnational family obligations." Latin American Perspectives, vol. 37, no. 5, 2010, pp. 67-87. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B., Seligmann, Linda J. "Introduction: Cultural and Political Economies of Adoption in Latin America." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-19. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Kinship into the Peruvian Adoption Office: Reproducing Families, Producing the State." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2009, pp. 44-67. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. Los niños ayacuchanos: una antropología de la adopción y la construcción familiar en el Perú.. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2009. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. Los niños ayacuchanos: una antropología de la adopción y la construcción familiar en el Perú.. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2009. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes by Krista E. Van Vleet. (Review.)." American Ethnologist, vol. 36, no. 2, 2009, pp. 422-423. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Raising the roof in the transnational Andes: building houses, forging kinship." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 15, no. 4, 2009, pp. 777-796. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "The Medicalization of Adoption in and from Peru." International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children, edited by Diana Marre and Laura Briggs, New York University Press, 2009, pp. 190-207. |
| Leinaweaver, J. B. "Improving Oneself: Young People Getting Ahead in the Peruvian Andes." Latin American Perspectives, vol. 35, no. 4, 2008, pp. 60-78. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru.. Duke University Press, 2008. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Choosing to Move: Child agency on Peru's margins." Childhood, vol. 14, no. 3, 2007, pp. 375-392. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "On moving children: The social implications of Andean child circulation." American Ethnologist, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 163-180. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "The Peru Reader: History,Culture, Politics. (Review.)." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 12, no. 1, 2007, pp. 277-279. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B., Fonseca, Claudia. "The State and Children's Fate: Reproduction in traumatic times." Childhood, vol. 14, no. 3, 2007, pp. 291-299. |
| Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Mass Sterilizations and Child Circulations in Peru." Anthropology News, vol. 46, no. 1, 2005, pp. 13-18. |
Jessaca Leinaweaver is the winner of the Margaret Mead Award for her first book, The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru (Duke, 2008). Her second book, Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain (Duke, 2013), identifies unexpected intersections of migration and adoption. Her third book, Care and Agency: The Andean Community Through the Eyes of Children (Rutgers, 2024), co-authored with Jeanine Anderson (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), centers children to expand theories of caregiving. Leinaweaver's current work examines international humanitarian forms of alternative care for children separated from their parents (in collaboration with Susan Short, Sociology).
2024. Care and Agency: The Andean Community Through the Eyes of Children. With Jeanine Anderson. Rutgers University Press.
2015. La migración adoptiva: criando a peruanos en España. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, trans. Adriana Soldí.
2013. Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain. Durham: Duke University Press.
2009. Los niños ayacuchanos: una antropología de la adopción y la construcción familiar en el Perú. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, trans. Adriana Soldí.
2008. The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru. Durham: Duke University Press.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | PhD | University of Michigan |
| 1999 | MA | University of Michigan |
| 1997 | BA | Whitman College |
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Society and Culture (2019-20)
Jose Maria Arguedas Article Award, given by the Peru Section of the Latin American Studies Association (2012)
Margaret Mead Award, jointly given by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology (2010)
Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan (2005)
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Flores, Andrea | Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Education |
| Short, Susan | Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies |
Population Studies & Training Center
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Pembroke Center for Research on Women and Gender
Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Dr. Leinaweaver teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural anthropology, Latin American Studies, and anthropological demography.
| ANTH 0680 - Anthropology of Food |
| ANTH 2020 - Methods of Anthropological Research |
| ANTH 2045 - Proposal Writing Workshop for Anthropological Fieldwork |
| ANTH 2060 - Anthropology Dissertators' Seminar |
| ANTH 2210 - Analysis of Social Structure |
| ANTH 2210 - Anthropology of Kinship |
| EMBA 2100 - Ethnographic Research Methods |
