Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

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Child Welfare and Adoption Family Dynamics and Relationships Anthropological Studies and Insights

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Dedication Preface List of Contributors Glossary of Anthropological Terms Introduction 1. Adoption and the Circulation of Children: A Comparative Perspective Fiona Bowie 2. Adopting a Native Child: An Anthropologist's Personal Involvement in the Field Godula Kosack Part 1: Africa 3. 'The Real Parents are the Foster Parents': Social Parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin Erdmute Alber 4. Fosterage and the Politics of Marriage and Kinship in East Cameroon Catrien Notermans 5. Adoption Practices among the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa: Enacting Fertility Aud Talle Part 2: Asia and Oceania 6. Korean Institutionalised Adoption Inge Roesch-Rhomberg 7. Transactions in Rights, Transactions in Children: A view of Adoption from Papua New Guinea Melissa Demian 8. Adoption and Belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea Astrid Anderson 9. Adoptions in Micronesia - Past and Present Dietrich Treide 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 Ernst Halbmayer 11. The Circulation of Children in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighbourhood: A Local Practice in a Globalized World Claudia Fonseca 12. Person, Relation and Value: The Economy of Circulating Ecuadorian Children in International Adoptions Esben Leifsen 13. Choosing Parents: Adoption into a Global Network Huon Wardle Part 4: Intercountry and Domestic Adoptions in 'the West' 14. National Bodies and the Body of the Child: 'Completing' Families through International Adoption Barbara Yngvesson 15. The Backpackers that Come to Stay: New Challenges to Norwegian Transnational Adoptive Families Signe Howell 16. Partial to Completeness: Gender, Peril and Agency in Australian Adoption Jon Telfer 17. Adoption: A Cure for (too) Many Ills Peter Selman

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