Cultures of transnational adoption [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Toby Alice Volkman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.734 |
Altri autori (Persone) | VolkmanToby Alice <1948-> |
Collana | e-Duke books scholarly collection |
Soggetto topico |
Intercountry adoption
Cognition and culture Kinship Transnationalism |
ISBN | 0-8223-8692-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim -- Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson -- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca -- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall -- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright -- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780896803321 |
Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2005 | ||
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Cultures of transnational adoption / / edited by Toby Alice Volkman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.734 |
Altri autori (Persone) | VolkmanToby Alice <1948-> |
Collana | e-Duke books scholarly collection |
Soggetto topico |
Intercountry adoption
Cognition and culture Kinship Transnationalism |
ISBN | 0-8223-8692-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim -- Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson -- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca -- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall -- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright -- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820224603321 |
Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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