| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 279 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
European Association of Social Anthropologists |
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European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
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| Contents |
Adoption and the circulation of children : a comparative perspective / Fiona Bowie -- Adopting a native child : an anthropologist's personal involvement in the field / Godula Kosack -- Africa. 'The real parents are the foster parents' : social parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin / Erdmute Alber -- Fosterage and the politics of marriage and kinship in East Cameroon / Catrien Notermans -- Adoption practices among the pastoral Maasai of East Africa : enacting fertility / Aud Talle -- Asia and Oceania. Korean institutionalised adoption / Inge Roesch-Rhomberg -- Transactions in rights, transactions in children : a view of adoption from Papua New Guinea / Melissa Demian -- Adoption and belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea / Astrid Anderson -- Adoptions in Micronesia -- past and present / Dietrich Treide -- Central and South America. The one who feeds has the rights' : adoption and fostering of kin, affines and enemies among the Yukpa and other Carib-speaking Indians of Lowland South America / Ernst Halbmayer -- The circulation of children in a Brazilian working-class neighbourhood : a local practice in a globalized world / Claudia Fonseca -- Person, relation and value : the economy of circulating Ecuadorian children in international adoptions / Esben Leifsen -- Choosing parents : adoption into a global network / Huon Wardle -- Intercountry and Domestic Adoptions in 'the West'. National bodies and the body of the child : 'completing' families through international adoption. / Barbara Yngvesson -- The backpackers that come to stay : new challenges to Norwegian transnational adoptive families / Signe Howell -- Partial to completeness : gender, peril and agency in Australian adoption / Jon Telfer -- Adoption : a cure for (too) many ills / Peter Selman |
| Summary |
The articles in this volume look at adoption practices from around the world, including examples of societies in which children are routinely separated from their biological parents. The text illustrates the range & flexibility of child-rearing practicesthat approximate to the Western term 'adoption' |
| Notes |
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Adoption -- Cross-cultural studies
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Kinship -- Cross-cultural studies
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Families -- Cross-cultural studies
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
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Adoption
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Families
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Kinship
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Adoptie.
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Interculturele vergelijking.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bowie, Fiona.
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| ISBN |
0203643704 |
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9780203643709 |
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9786610054213 |
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6610054215 |
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