Semiconductors / Horst Teichmann ; translated by L.F. Secretan

• Record Nr.: UNINA990001068820403321
• Autore: Teichmann, Horst
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : Butterworths, 1964
• Disciplina: 537.622
• Locazione: FI1
• Collocazione: 30-009
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Cross-cultural approaches to adoption / / edited by Fiona Bowie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783625103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-41177-4; 0-203-68372-2; 1-134-41178-2; 1-280-05421-2; 0-203-64370-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Classificazione: 80.82
• Altri autori (Persone): BowieFiona
• Disciplina: 362.734
• Soggetti: Adoption; Kinship; Families
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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 c
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.