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Article: Researchers from University of Alberta report recent findings in ethnology.
- Article from:
- Science Letter
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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"In this article, we use narratives of cultural identity among U. S. parents of children adopted from China to conceptually explore the ideas that underwrite socially intelligible kinship," scientists in Edmonton, Canada report (see also Ethnology).
"Although these narratives address the cultural heritage of the child, we find that they also perform a kind of social labor. The ways adoptive parents respond to the ''culture question'' (their children's birth heritage) also speak to family identity in relation to a foundational imaginary of heteronormative kinship, namely, the equivalence of biological and social family origins," wrote S. Dorow and colleagues, ...