Cross-cultural approaches to adoption / / edited by Fiona Bowie
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| Titolo: |
Cross-cultural approaches to adoption / / edited by Fiona Bowie
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.734 |
| Soggetto topico: | Adoption |
| Kinship | |
| Families | |
| Classificazione: | 80.82 |
| Altri autori: |
BowieFiona
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| 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: | 1-134-41177-4 |
| 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.: | 9910814181303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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