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Volume 8

Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

Reviews

“It makes a unique contribution to our understanding of traditional child adoption, a topic that has received considerable attention from anthropologists working in Oceania, and especially in Micronesia.” • Donald H. Rubinstein, University of Guam

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Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees’ inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging. This account is theoretically rooted in ethnopsychology, based on field work conducted across multiple research sites in the Chuuk Lagoon, its neighboring Chuukic-speaking atolls, and persons from neighboring Micronesian island communities.

Subject: Anthropology (General)Theory and Methodology

Area: Asia-Pacific

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Of Related Interest

Selfhood and Recognition

Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality

In the Best Interests of the Child

Loss and Suffering in Adoption Proceedings

Houses Transformed

Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building