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UNINA9910450064503321 |
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Titolo |
Cross-cultural approaches to adoption / / edited by Fiona Bowie |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-203-68372-2 |
1-134-41178-2 |
1-280-05421-2 |
0-203-64370-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Adoption |
Kinship |
Families |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the |
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