Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

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ISBN: 9780415303507 | 0415303508
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/3/2004

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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.

List of illustrations

xii

List of contributors

xiii

Preface

Glossary of anthropological terms

xvi

Kinship abbreviations and symbols

xix

INTRODUCTION

(30)

1 Adoption and the circulation of children: a comparative perspective

(18)

FIONA BOWIE

2 Adopting a native child: an anthropologist's personal involvement in the field

(10)

GODULA KOSACK

PART I Africa

(48)

3 'The real parents are the foster parents': social parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin

(15)

ERDMUTE ALBER

4 Fosterage and the politics of marriage and kinship in East Cameroon

(16)

CATRIEN NOTERMANS

5 Adoption practices among the pastoral Maasai of East Africa: enacting fertility

(15)

AUD TALLE

PART II Asia and Oceania

(64)

6 Korean institutionalised adoption

(16)

INGE ROESCH-RHOMBERG

7 Transactions in rights, transactions in children: a view of adoption from Papua New Guinea

(14)

MELISSA DEMIAN

8 Adoption and belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea

111

(16)

ASTRID ANDERSON

9 Adoptions in Micronesia: past and present

127

(16)

DIETRICH TREIDE

PART III Central and South America

143

(66)

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

145

(20)

ERNST HALBMAYER

11 The circulation of children in a Brazilian working-class neighborhood: a local practice in a globalized world

165

(17)

CLAUDIA FONSECA

12 Person, relation and value: the economy of circulating Ecuadorian children in international adoption

182

(15)

ESBEN LEIFSEN

13 Choosing parents: adoption into a global network

197

(12)

HUON WARDLE

PART IV Intercountry and domestic adoption in the 'West'

209

(65)

14 National bodies and the body of the child: 'completing' families through international adoption

211

(16)

BARBARA YNGVESSON

15 The backpackers that come to stay: new challenges to Norwegian transnational adoptive families

227

(15)

SIGNE HOWELL

16 Partial to completeness: gender, peril and agency in Australian adoption

242

(15)

JON TELFER

17 Adoption: a cure for (too) many ills?

257

(17)

PETER SELMAN

Index

274

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