Last week on July 7th Dr. Kathryn Goldfarb, a cultural anthropologist from the University of Colorado, Boulder, presented a fascinating lecture titled “Beyond Blood Ties: Intimate Kinships in Japanese Foster and Adoptive Care” in which she took us through the cultural intricacies and contradictions in individual understandings of the importance (or not) of blood ties in constituting family within the foster and adoptive care system in contemporary Japan.
The session generated many questions and we thank Dr Goldfarb for such an interesting lecture!
