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Understanding and documenting the ways that objects become entangled in, produce, sustain, and rupture family relations are crucial contributions of museum studies to anthropological kinship theory. This article analyzes a Canadian exhibit entitled "Family: Bonds and Belonging," developed in response to Canada's 150th anniversary, in 2017, by a British Columbia provincial museum, then brought to Canada's national immigration museum in Nova Scotia in 2019. The article demonstrates how curators invite objects to narrate kinship, and entangle visitors as theoretical accomplices, all while building national projects. Layered concepts of "family" plays a central role in this exhibit, simultaneously introducing "family" as complex, diverse, and varied while also reproducing middle‐class conventions of family. I argue that this contradiction partly undercuts the representational content of the exhibit, and that the simultaneous multivalence and ideological uniformity of family in this setting points to how museum practices and procedures can unintentionally reproduce conventional ideas that implicitly counter curatorial work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Political Children: Violence, Labor, and Rights in Peru" by Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland is a valuable contribution to the study of working children and the state in Peru. The author conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Lima, focusing on two different groups of young people: children living in a shantytown and young workers in an activist organization. Luttrell-Rowland explores the experiences of these children and challenges the government's approach to child labor, arguing that it depoliticizes the inequalities faced by vulnerable children. The book emphasizes the importance of recognizing the humanity and perspectives of children and offers a constructive model for scholarship. [Extracted from the article]

This article introduces a special issue on the meaning of children in violent, uncertain times. It is framed in terms of the political-economy aspects of adoption, focusing on the local occurrences that make international adoption possible, from legal determinations of abandonment to wartime and postwar parenting. The article argues that government and civil institutions contain and shape children in the context of the dual oppressions of violence and socioeconomic inequality, and works to destabilize normative depictions of social reproduction, outlining a programme of study where aspects of children's lives are understood in line with their complex historical conditions. (Contains 4 notes.)

This article links research into constructions of childhood and child agency to anthropological studies of young people's informal adoption and state involvement in family arrangements. It analyses the life history of a young Peruvian woman who deliberately chose to move into an orphanage. The multiple points at which individual and family plans and efforts are shaped by broader political economic matters are addressed in a discussion of how urban Andean families, and in particular their children, use local orphanages as a part of their strategies for individual and family advancement. (Contains 3 figures and 18 notes.)