Relative Power: Changing Interpretations
of Fosterage and Adoption in Pacific Island Societies
Special Issue of Pacific Studies 31(3/4)
2008
edited
by
Jeanette Dickerson-Putman and Judith Schachter
from 2007 Symposium
Preface
Mac Marshall
Introduction
Judith Schachter
The Making and Nurturing of Relationships: An Ujelang/Enewetak Model
in the Context of Change
Laurence Marshall Carucci
Adopting Change: Relational Flexibility as Vice and Virtue on Mota
Island,
Vanuatu
Thorgeir Storesund Kolshus
Power, Uncertainty, and Obligation: Unraveling Contemporary Adoption
and Fosterage in Raivavae, Austral Islands, French Polynesia
Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
A Transaction in Ambivalence: Adoption in Contemporary Highlands
Papua
Leslie Butt
Beyond Normative Discourse: Adoption and Violence against Women in
New Caledonia
Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin
Demythologizing Adoption: From the Practice to the Effects of Adoption
in
Chuuk, Micronesia
Manuel Rauchholz
Adoption is Blood: Understanding Chamorro Poksai as Chamorro Authenticity
within Racialized Decolonization Politics on Guam
Laurel A. Monnig
'A Relationship Endeared to the People': Adoption in Hawaiian Custom
and
Law
Judith Schachter
Afterword: Adoptive Relations in Theories of Kinship and Modernity
Susan McKinnon