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Adoption in Eastern Oceania. / Edited by Vern Carroll.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ASAO monograph ; no. 1.
- Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Monograph series, no. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption.
- Ethnology--Oceania.
- Ethnology.
- Oceania.
- Physical Description:
- 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1970.
- Contents:
- Introduction: What does adoption mean? By V. Carroll.
- Traditional and modern adoption patterns in Hawaii, by A. Howard, R. H. Heighton, Jr., C. E. Jordan, R. G. Gallimore.
- Adoption in the Society Islands, by A. Hooper.
- Tahitian adoption as a psychological message, by R. I. Levy.
- Adoption on Rangiroa Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, by P. Ottino.
- Adoption on Nukuoro, by V. Carroll.
- Adoption on Kapingamarangi, by M. D. Lieber.
- Banaban adoption, by M. G. Silverman.
- Some legal aspects of Gilbertese adoption, by H. P. Lundsgaarde.
- Adoption, guardianship, and social stratification in the Northern Gilbert Island, by B. Lambert.
- Adoption on Ponape, by J. L. Fischer.
- Adoption on Romonum, Truk, by R. Gallagher Goodenough.
- Adoption on Rotuma, by A. Howard.
- Kinship and adoption in the Northern New Hebrides, by H. W. Scheffler.
- Epilogue: transactions in parenthood, by W. H. Goodenrough.
- Bibliography (p. [411]-422)
- ISBN:
- 0870221108
- OCLC:
- 493200
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