The anthropology of childhood : cherubs, chattel, changelings
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The anthropology of childhood : cherubs, chattel, changelings
Cambridge University Press, 2015
2nd ed
- : pbk
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-515) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this book sets out to answer these questions, and argues that our common understandings about children are narrowly culture-bound. Enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, the book examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers within the family or community, their treatment at different ages, their play, work, schooling, and transition to adulthood. The result is a nuanced and credible picture of childhood in different cultures, past and present. Organised developmentally, moving from infancy through to adolescence and early adulthood, this new edition reviews and catalogues the findings of over 100 years of anthropological scholarship dealing with childhood and adolescence, drawing on over 750 newly added sources, and engaging with newly emerging issues relevant to the world of childhood today.
Table of Contents
- 1. Where do children come from?
- 2. Valuing children
- 3. To make a child
- 4. It takes a village
- 5. Making sense
- 6. Of marbles and morals
- 7. The chore curriculum
- 8. Living in limbo
- 9. Taming the autonomous learner
- 10. Too little childhood? Too much?
- References
- Author index
- Topic index
- Society index.
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