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Cross-cultural approaches to adoption / edited by Fiona Bowie

Bowie, Fiona

1st ed.

London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2004

Online Ressource (1 volume)

Englisch

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Glossary of anthropological terms; Kinship abbreviations and symbols; INTRODUCTION; Adoption and the circulation of children: a comparative perspective; Adopting a native child: an anthropologist's personal involvement in the field; Africa; 'The real parents are the foster parents': social parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin; Fosterage and the politics of marriage and kinship in East Cameroon; Adoption practices among the pastoral Maasai of East Africa: enacting fertility; Asia and Oceania.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Cross-cultural approaches to adoption

0-203-64370-4 (electronic bk.); 978-0-203-64370-9 ( : electronic bk.)

0-415-30351-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-415-30350-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 57052872 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

GN482.3

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bcl: 80.82 ; bisacsh: FAM004000 ; bisacsh: FAM 004000 ; bicssc: JB

LOC-SH: Adoption -- Cross-cultural studies ; Kinship -- Cross-cultural studies ; Families -- Cross-cultural studies ; Adoption -- Études transculturelles ; Parenté -- Études transculturelles ; Famille -- Études transculturelles ; Adoption -- Cross-cultural studies ; Kinship -- Cross-cultural studies ; Families -- Cross-cultural studies ; Families -- Cross-cultural studies ; Kinship -- Cross-cultural studies ; Adoption -- Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books

Electronic books / Cross-cultural studies ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Adoption & Fostering ; Adoption ; Families ; Kinship ; Adoptie ; Interculturele vergelijking ; Cross-cultural studies

This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy