03136oam 2200673I 450 991081418130332120230617004144.01-134-41177-40-203-68372-21-134-41178-21-280-05421-20-203-64370-410.4324/9780203643709 (CKB)1000000000248964(EBL)200231(OCoLC)299570309(SSID)ssj0000293107(PQKBManifestationID)12113946(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293107(PQKBWorkID)10273016(PQKB)10253399(MiAaPQ)EBC200231(Au-PeEL)EBL200231(CaPaEBR)ebr10094327(CaONFJC)MIL5421(OCoLC)57052872(EXLCZ)99100000000024896420180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCross-cultural approaches to adoption /edited by Fiona BowieLondon ;New York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (300 p.)"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."0-415-30350-8 0-415-30351-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 OceaniaKorean 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 cThis 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.AdoptionCross-cultural studiesKinshipCross-cultural studiesFamiliesCross-cultural studiesAdoptionKinshipFamilies362.73480.82bclBowie Fiona727055European Association of Social Anthropologists.FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910814181303321Cross-cultural approaches to adoption3987144UNINA