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  1. Cross-cultural approaches to adoption
    Published: (c)2004
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

    This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy more

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    This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0203643704; 9780203643709
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Subjects: Adoption; Kinship; Families; Adoption; Parenté; Famille; Adoption; Kinship; Families; Families; Kinship; Adoption; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Adoption & Fostering; Adoption; Families; Kinship; Adoptie; Interculturele vergelijking; Cross-cultural studies
    Scope: Online Ressource (1 volume)
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    "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Glossary of anthropological terms; Kinship abbreviations and symbols; 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.