"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
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.
Contents
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.
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