1.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797067303321

Titolo

Delivering the goods : making the most of North America's evolving oil infrastructure / / Frank A. Verrastro [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia ; ; Lanham, Maryland : , : Center for Strategic & International Studies : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-4071-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (67 p.)

Disciplina

388.55

Soggetti

Petroleum - Transportation

North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Report of the CSIS Energy and National Security Program February 2015."

Nota di contenuto

The changing energy landscape -- The changing U.S. policy and regulatory landscape.



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00400365

Titolo

Časoslov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pariz, : Ymca Press, [1949]

Descrizione fisica

332 p. ; 21 cm.

Disciplina

491.817.01

Soggetti

LITURGIA ORTODOSSA

LINGUA SLAVA ANTICA - TESTI LITURGICI

Lingua di pubblicazione

Church Slavic

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910693425203321

Titolo

Fortitudine : newsletter of the Marine Corps Historical Program

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Quantico, Va., : Marine Corps History Division

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (38 volumes)

Disciplina

359.9/6/0973

Soggetti

Military museums

Military history

History

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Subtitle varies.

"Bulletin of the Marine Corps Historical Program, <1987-2015>."