Fiona Bowie (ed.)

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

Herausgeber: Bowie, Fiona

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780415303514
• ISBN-10: 0415303516
• Artikelnr.: 21252112

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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