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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.734
• Soggetto topico: Adoption; Kinship; Families
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 80.82
• Altri autori: BowieFiona
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cross-cultural approaches to adoption
• ISBN: 0-203-68372-2; 1-134-41178-2; 1-280-05421-2; 0-203-64370-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450064503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II