Looking at examples from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and Central America, this edited collection explores the cross-cultural contexts that affect adoption today and provides valuable analysis of global adoption practices.
Looking at examples from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and Central America, this edited collection explores the cross-cultural contexts that affect adoption today and provides valuable analysis of global adoption practices.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Fiona Bowie is Senior Lecturer and Head of Anthropology at the University of Bristol, where she specialises in anthropology of religion, kinship and African society.
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Dedication Preface List of Contributors Glossary of Anthropological Terms Introduction 1. Adoption and the Circulation of Children: A Comparative Perspective2. 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 Benin4. Fosterage and the Politics of Marriage and Kinship in East Cameroon5. Adoption Practices among the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa: Enacting FertilityPart 2: Asia and Oceania 6. Korean Institutionalised Adoption 7. Transactions in Rights, Transactions in Children: A view of Adoption from Papua New Guinea8. Adoption and Belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea9. Adoptions in Micronesia - Past and PresentPart 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 America11. The Circulation of Children in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighbourhood: A Local Practice in a Globalized World12. Person, Relation and Value: The Economy of Circulating Ecuadorian Children in International Adoptions13. Choosing Parents: Adoption into a Global NetworkPart 4: Intercountry and Domestic Adoptions in 'the West' 14. National Bodies and the Body of the Child: 'Completing' Families through International Adoption15. The Backpackers that Come to Stay: New Challenges to Norwegian Transnational Adoptive Families16. Partial to Completeness: Gender, Peril and Agency in Australian Adoption17. Adoption: A Cure for (too) Many Ills
Dedication Preface List of Contributors Glossary of Anthropological Terms Introduction 1. Adoption and the Circulation of Children: A Comparative Perspective2. 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 Benin4. Fosterage and the Politics of Marriage and Kinship in East Cameroon5. Adoption Practices among the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa: Enacting FertilityPart 2: Asia and Oceania 6. Korean Institutionalised Adoption 7. Transactions in Rights, Transactions in Children: A view of Adoption from Papua New Guinea8. Adoption and Belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea9. Adoptions in Micronesia - Past and PresentPart 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 America11. The Circulation of Children in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighbourhood: A Local Practice in a Globalized World12. Person, Relation and Value: The Economy of Circulating Ecuadorian Children in International Adoptions13. Choosing Parents: Adoption into a Global NetworkPart 4: Intercountry and Domestic Adoptions in 'the West' 14. National Bodies and the Body of the Child: 'Completing' Families through International Adoption15. The Backpackers that Come to Stay: New Challenges to Norwegian Transnational Adoptive Families16. Partial to Completeness: Gender, Peril and Agency in Australian Adoption17. Adoption: A Cure for (too) Many Ills
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