Adoption in Eastern Oceania / / ed. by Vern Carroll.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Carroll, Vern,; Fischer, J. L.,; Gallimore, Ronald G.,; Goodenough, Ruth Gallagher,; Goodenough, Ward H.,; Heighton Jr., Robert H.,; Hooper, Antony,; Howard, Alan,; Jordan E., Cathie,; Lambert, Bernd,; Levy, Robert I.,; Lieber, Michael D.,; Lundsgaarde, Henry P.,; Ottino, Paul,; Scheffler, H. W.,; Silverman, Martin Gary,
• HerausgeberIn: Carroll, Vern,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1970
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: ASAO Monograph Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

This volume contains twelve very detailed ethnographic studies of the adoption of children as practiced on the island societies of Eastern Oceania (Polynesia, Micronesia, and Island Melanesia). Each of the chapters places adoption in the context of the total kinship system and adduces other relevant...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Editor's Preface
• 1. Introduction: What Does "Adoption" Mean?
• EASTERN POLYNESIA
• 2. Traditional and Modern Adoption Patterns in Hawaii
• 3. Adoption in the Society Islands
• 4. Tahitian Adoption as a Psychological Message
• 5. Adoption on Rangiroa Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago
• WESTERN POLYNESIA
• 6. Adoption on Nukuoro
• 7. Adoption on Kapingamarangi
• 8. Banaban Adoption Martin Gary Silverman
• 9. Some Legal Aspects of Gilbertese Adoption
• 10. Adoption, Guardianship, and Social Stratification in the Northern Gilbert Islands
• 11. Adoption on Ponape
• 12. Adoption on Romonum, Truk
• OTHER SOCIETIES OF EASTERN OCEANIA
• 13. Adoption on Rotuma
• 14. Kinship and Adoption in the Northern New Hebrides
• 15. Epilogue: Transactions in Parenthood
• References
• Contributors