ISBN:
0415303508
,
0415303516
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 279 p)
,
ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption
DDC:
362.734
Keywords:
Families Cross-cultural studies
;
Adoption Cross-cultural studies
;
Kinship Cross-cultural studies
;
Kinship
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Korean institutionalised adoptionTransactions in rights, transactions in children: a view of adoption from Papua New Guinea; Adoption and belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea; Adoptions in Micronesia: past and present; 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; The circulation of children in a Brazilian working-class neighborhood: a local practice in a globalized world
Description / Table of Contents:
Person, relation and value: the economy of circulating Ecuadorian children in international adoptionChoosing parents: adoption into a global network; Intercountry and domestic adoption in the 'West'; National bodies and the body of the child: 'completing' families through international adoption; The backpackers that come to stay: new challenges to Norwegian transnational adoptive families; Partial to completeness: gender, peril and agency in Australian adoption; Adoption: a cure for (too) many ills?; Index
Note:
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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