Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “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
Table of Contents Illustrations
Notes on Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Adoption and the Tiip (Psyche) in Chuuk
Chapter 2. Themes in Adoption
Chapter 3. Adoption Between Law, Custom, and Migration
Conclusion
References
