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A Sealed and Secret Kinship - The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption (Paperback) Loot Price: R878

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A Sealed and Secret Kinship - The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption (Paperback): Judith S. Modell

A Sealed and Secret Kinship - The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption (Paperback)

Judith S. Modell

Series: Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective

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Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes the subject of this book. Adoption, the author argues, touches on major preoccupations we all have: who we are; why we are what we are; the balance of "nature" and "culture" in self-definition; the conflict between individual rights and social order.

The problematic nature of adoption in western societies is effectively contrasted by the author with cultures in many other parts of the world in which children are exchanged frequently, openly, and happily. There is no stigma, often even a high value, placed on being the adopted child in a family. This comparative perspective brings into sharp relief American, and by implication other western, policies that reflect a very different notion of kinship and family. Adoption thus reveals itself as one of the keys to western ideas about human nature, the person, rights, privacy, and family relationships.

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Imprint:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective
Release date:	May 2002
Authors:	Judith S. Modell
Dimensions:	143 x 217 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-57181-324-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-57181-324-1
Barcode:	9781571813244