Cross-cultural approaches to adoption /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. |
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| Description: | xviii, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European Association of Social Anthropologists European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5540996 |
Table of Contents:
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Glossary of Anthropological Terms
- Introduction
- 1. Adoption and the Circulation of Children: A Comparative Perspective
- 2. Adopting a Native Child: An Anthropologist's Personal Involvement in the Field
- Part 1. Africa
- 3. 'The Real Parents are the Foster Parents': Social Parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin
- 4. Fosterage and the Politics of Marriage and Kinship in East Cameroon
- 5. Adoption Practices among the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa: Enacting Fertility
- Part 2. Asia and Oceania
- 6. Korean Institutionalised Adoption
- 7. Transactions in Rights, Transactions in Children: A view of Adoption from Papua New Guinea
- 8. Adoption and Belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea
- 9. Adoptions in Micronesia - Past and Present
- Part 3. Central and South America
- 10. '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
- 11. The Circulation of Children in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighbourhood: A Local Practice in a Globalized World
- 12. Person, Relation and Value: The Economy of Circulating Ecuadorian Children in International Adoptions
- 13. Choosing Parents: Adoption into a Global Network
- Part 4. Intercountry and Domestic Adoptions in 'the West'
- 14. National Bodies and the Body of the Child: 'Completing' Families through International Adoption
- 15. The Backpackers that Come to Stay: New Challenges to Norwegian Transnational Adoptive Families
- 16. Partial to Completeness: Gender, Peril and Agency in Australian Adoption
- 17. Adoption: A Cure for (too) Many Ills
