E17 The Folklore of International Adoption with Dr. Patricia Sawin

Anthropologist On The Street - A podcast by Carie Little Hersh: Teaching Professor, Blogger, Podcaster

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Adoption is a culturally and historically complicated process that we like to envision as purely altruistic, yet usually involves moving children from less- to more-advantaged communities. Folklorist and anthropologist Dr. Patricia Sawin examines how parents’ stories of international adoption help build new families, while sometimes over-simplifying difficult issues of race, privilege, and the power and limits of love.

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