Cross Cultural Approaches to Adoption 1st Edition by Fiona Bowie ISBN 0203683722 9780415303507

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ISBN 10: 0203683722 
ISBN 13: 9780415303507
Author: Fiona Bowie

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.

Cross Cultural Approaches to Adoption 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1
Adoption and the Circulation of Children
Chapter 2
Adopting a Native Child
Part I Africa
Chapter 3
“The Real Parents are the Foster Parents”
Chapter 4
Fosterage and the Politics of Marriage and Kinship in East Cameroon
Chapter 5
Adoption Practices Among the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa
Part II Asia and Oceania
Chapter 6
Korean Institutionalised Adoption
Chapter 7
Transactions in Rights, Transactions in Children
Chapter 8
Adoption and Belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea
Chapter 9
Adoptions in Micronesia
Part III Central and South America
Chapter 10
“The One who Feeds Has the Rights”
Chapter 11
The Circulation of Children in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood
Chapter 12
Person, Relation and Value
Chapter 13
Choosing Parents
Part IV Intercountry and Domestic Adoption in the ‘West’
Chapter 14
National Bodies and the Body of the Child
Chapter 15
The Backpackers that Come to Stay
Chapter 16
Partial to Completeness
Chapter 17
Adoption

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