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1 online resource (232 pages) |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Intercountry adoption.
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Cognition and culture.
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Kinship.
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Transnationalism.
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kinship.
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80.82 education in families.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
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Cognition and culture
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Intercountry adoption
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Kinship
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Transnationalism
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Adoption
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Ausländisches Kind
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Adoption.
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Foreigners.
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Cultural differences.
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Auslèandisches Kind.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Volkman, Toby Alice, 1948- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822365778 |
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0822365774 |
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9780822386926 |
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0822386925 |
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082233576X |
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9780822335764 |
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