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Title:

Cultures of transnational adoption / edited by Toby Alice Volkman.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

232 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Intercountry adoption
Cognition and culture.
Kinship.
Transnationalism.
Adoption internationale.
Cognition et culture.
Parenté.
Transnationalisme.

Other Authors:

Volkman, Toby Alice, 1948-

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780822335894 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822335891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822335764 (cloth : alk. paper)
082233576X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004026187

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)