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In: European Association of Social Anthropologists
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Volume 60, Issue 4
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Forum for development studies: journal of Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Norwegian Association for Development, Volume 41, Issue 2, p. 253-272
ISSN: 1891-1765
In: Forum for development studies, Volume 41, Issue 2, p. 253-272
ISSN: 0803-9410
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Volume 56, Issue 1
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Current anthropology, Volume 51, Issue S2, p. S269-S277
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Annual review of anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1, p. 149-166
ISSN: 1545-4290
Adoption of children born by others is practiced in some form or another in all known societies. Although ethnographic monographs from all over the world have made numerous brief references to local adoption and/or fostering practices, very little sustained interpretative interest has, until recently, been directed at this social phenomenon. With the sudden and rapid increase in transnational adoption—people in Western Europe and North America adopt children from countries in the south and the former Soviet empire—a new-found anthropological interest in adoption has been observed. This review places adoption firmly within the tradition of theoretical kinship and explores the values attached to a perceived relationship between biological and social relatedness in a number of different social settings in which adoption is being practiced.
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Volume 50, Issue 3
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 9, Issue 3, p. 465-484
ISSN: 1467-9655
With empirical material obtained from a study of transnational adoption in Norway, an argument is made for the concept of kinning. By this is meant a process by which a foetus, new‐born child, or any previously unconnected person, is brought into a significant and permanent relationship that is expressed in a kin idiom. Through a focus on adoption within a cultural setting that emphasizes the flesh and blood metaphor as central for kinship, the ambiguities and contradictions embedded in the relationship between biological and social relatedness are thrown into sharp relief. Questions of race and ethnicity also become pertinent to the kinning drama of adoptive parents which involves, it is argued, a process of transubstantiation of the adopted child.
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 2, Issue 2, p. 253
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Ethnos, Volume 55, Issue 3-4, p. 248-259
ISSN: 1469-588X
In: Ethnos, Volume 55, Issue 3-4, p. 137-139
ISSN: 1469-588X
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 24, Issue 3, p. 419