| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- Wedding citizenship and culture : Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim -- Embodying Chinese culture : transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao : the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson -- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca -- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall -- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children" : spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright -- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig. |
| Summary |
The experiences in this volume consider how trans-national adoption creates and transforms cultures, in the light of the vast increase in their number. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Intercountry adoption.
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Cognition and culture.
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Kinship.
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Transnationalism.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
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Cognition and culture. (OCoLC)fst00866482
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Intercountry adoption. (OCoLC)fst00976069
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Kinship. (OCoLC)fst00987769
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Transnationalism. (OCoLC)fst01154884
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Volkman, Toby Alice, 1948- editor.
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| Added Title |
Transnational adoption |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Cultures of transnational adoption. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005 082233576X (DLC) 2004026187 (OCoLC)56924760 |
| ISBN |
9780822386926 (electronic book) |
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0822386925 (electronic book) |
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082233576X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780822335764 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0822335891 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780822365778 |
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9780822335894 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0822365774 |
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