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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption : European Association of Social Anthropologists - Fiona Bowie

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Paperback | 7 October 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn attention to the relative ease with which children can be obtained on the global circuit, and have brought about legislation which regulates the exchange of children within and between countries. However a scarcity of research into cross-cultural attitudes to child-rearing, and a wider lack of awareness of cultural difference in adoptive contexts, has meant that the assumptions underlying Western childcare policy are seldom examined or made explicit.

These articles look at adoption practices from Africa, Oceania, Asia and Central America, including examples of societies in which children are routinely separated from their biological parents or passed through several foster families. Showing the range and flexibility of the child-rearing practices that approximate to the Western term 'adoption', they demonstrate the benefits of a cross-cultural appreciation of family life, and allow a broader understanding of the varied relationships that exist between children and adoptive parents.

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Sociology Sociology & Family & Relationships Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Adoption & Fostering: Advice & Issues Society & Culture Education Schools & Pre-Schools

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Dedication
Preface
List of Contributors
Glossary of Anthropological Terms
Introduction
Adoption and the Circulation of Children: A Comparative Perspective
Adopting a Native Child: An Anthropologist's Personal Involvement in the Field
Africa
'The Real Parents are the Foster Parents': Social Parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin
Fosterage and the Politics of Marriage and Kinship in East Cameroon
Adoption Practices among the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa: Enacting Fertility
Asia and Oceania
Korean Institutionalised Adoption
Transactions in Rights, Transactions in Children: A view of Adoption from Papua New Guinea
Adoption and Belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea
Adoptions in Micronesia - Past and Present
Central and South America
'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
The Circulation of Children in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighbourhood: A Local Practice in a Globalized World
Person, Relation and Value: The Economy of Circulating Ecuadorian Children in International Adoptions
Choosing Parents: Adoption into a Global Network
Intercountry and Domestic Adoptions in 'the West'
National Bodies and the Body of the Child: 'Completing' Families through International Adoption
The Backpackers that Come to Stay: New Challenges to Norwegian Transnational Adoptive Families
Partial to Completeness: Gender, Peril and Agency in Australian Adoption
Adoption: A Cure for (too) Many Ills
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