Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

Download or read book Adoption, Emotion, and Identity written by Manuel Rauchholz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.