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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450064503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

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

Electronic books.

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.