Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

ISBN-13: 9780415303507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str.

Fiona Bowie

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.