Adoption in Eastern Oceania.
By: Edited by Vern Carroll.
Contributors: Carroll, Vern, ed.
Series: ASAO monograph ;; no. 1; ASAO monograph ;; no. 1.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Adoption; Ethnology -- Oceania
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What does adoption mean? By V. Carroll.; title: Traditional and modern adoption patterns in Hawaii, by A. Howard, R. H. Heighton, Jr., C. E. Jordan, R. G. Gallimore.; title: Adoption in the Society Islands, by A. Hooper.; title: Tahitian adoption as a psychological message, by R. I. Levy.; title: Adoption on Rangiroa Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, by P. Ottino.; title: Adoption on Nukuoro, by V. Carroll.; title: Adoption on Kapingamarangi, by M. D. Lieber.; title: Banaban adoption, by M. G. Silverman.; title: Some legal aspects of Gilbertese adoption, by H. P. Lundsgaarde.; title: Adoption, guardianship, and social stratification in the Northern Gilbert Island, by B. Lambert.; title: Adoption on Ponape, by J. L. Fischer.; title: Adoption on Romonum, Truk, by R. Gallagher Goodenough.; title: Adoption on Rotuma, by A. Howard.; title: Kinship and adoption in the Northern New Hebrides, by H. W. Scheffler.; title: Epilogue: transactions in parenthood, by W. H. Goodenrough.; title: Bibliography (p. [411]-422)