Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

Fiona Bowie is Senior Lecturer and Head of Anthropology at the University of Bristol, where she specialises in anthropology of religion, kinship and African society.

• Dedication Preface List of Contributors Glossary of Anthropological Terms Introduction 1. Adoption and the Circulation of Children: A Comparative Perspective2. Adopting a Native Child: An Anthropologist's Personal Involvement in the Field Part 1: Africa 3. 'The Real Parents are the Foster Parents': Social Parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin4. Fosterage and the Politics of Marriage and Kinship in East Cameroon5. Adoption Practices among the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa: Enacting FertilityPart 2: Asia and Oceania 6. Korean Institutionalised Adoption 7. Transactions in Rights, Transactions in Children: A view of Adoption from Papua New Guinea8. Adoption and Belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea9. Adoptions in Micronesia - Past and PresentPart 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 America11. The Circulation of Children in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighbourhood: A Local Practice in a Globalized World12. Person, Relation and Value: The Economy of Circulating Ecuadorian Children in International Adoptions13. Choosing Parents: Adoption into a Global NetworkPart 4: Intercountry and Domestic Adoptions in 'the West' 14. National Bodies and the Body of the Child: 'Completing' Families through International Adoption15. The Backpackers that Come to Stay: New Challenges to Norwegian Transnational Adoptive Families16. Partial to Completeness: Gender, Peril and Agency in Australian Adoption17. Adoption: A Cure for (too) Many Ills

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