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Anthropology and child development : a cross-cultural reader / edited by Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S. New.
Penn Museum Library GN510 .A67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 11.
- Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialization--Cross-cultural studies.
- Socialization.
- Child development--Cross-cultural studies.
- Child development.
- Children--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies.
- Children.
- Child rearing--Cross-cultural studies.
- Child rearing.
- Ethnology.
- Children--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 324 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., [2008]
- Summary:
- This unprecedented collection of articles is an introduction to the study of cultural variations in childhood across the world and to the theoretical frameworks for investigating and interpreting them. With a focus on the child's participation in, and acquisition of, cultural practices, the readings include ethnographic studies of childhood among hunting-and-gathering, agricultural, and urban-industrial peoples in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, Europe, and North America. Introductions to each section provide the student with a historical and conceptual framework for understanding the significance of the particular studies and their implications for developmental theory and educational practice.
- From the earliest analysis of cultural difference to the most recent articles examining ecological, semiotic, and sociolinguistic difference, Anthropology and Child Development illuminates the process through which people become the bearers of their historically and culturally specific identities.
- Contents:
- Part I Discovering Diversity in Childhood: Early Works 9
- 1 Plasticity in Child Development / Franz Boas 18
- 2 The Ethnography of Childhood / Margaret Mead 22
- 3 Childhood in the Trobriand Islands, Melanesia / Bronislaw Malinowski 28
- 4 Tallensi Childhood in Ghana / Meyer Fortes 34
- 5 Continuities and Discontinuities in Cultural Conditioning / Ruth Benedict 42
- Part II Infant Care: Cultural Variation in Parental Goals and Practices 49
- 6 The Comparative Study of Parenting / Robert A. LeVine, Suzanne Dixon, Sarah E. LeVine, Amy Richman, Constance Keefer, P. Herbert Liederman, T. Berry Brazelton 55
- 7 Infant Care in the Kalahari Desert / Melvin J. Konner 66
- 8 Multiple Caregiving in the Ituri Forest / Edward Z. Tronick, Gilda A. Morelli, Steve Winn 73
- 9 Fathers and Infants among Aka Pygmies / Barry S. Hewlett 84
- 10 Swaddling, Cradleboards and the Development of Children / James S. Chisholm 100
- 11 Talking and Playing with Babies: Ideologies of Child-Rearing / Catherine Snow, Akke De Blauw, Ghislaine Van Roosmalen 115
- 12 Attachment in Anthropological Perspective / Robert A. LeVine, Karin Norman 127
- 13 An Experiment in Infant Care: Children of the Kibbutz / Melford E. Spiro, Audrey G. Spiro 143
- Part III Early Childhood: Language Acquisition, Socialization, and Enculturation 157
- 14 The Acquisition of Communicative Style in Japanese / Patricia M. Clancy 165
- 15 Why African Children Are So Hard to Test / Sara Harkness, Charles M. Super 182
- 16 Autonomy and Aggression in the Three-Year-Old: The Utku Eskimo Case / Jean L. Briggs 187
- 17 Narrating Transgressions in U.S. and Taiwan / Peggy J. Miller, Todd L. Sandel, Chung-Hui Liang, Heidi Fung 198
- 18 Child's Play in Italian Perspective / Rebecca S. New 213
- 19 Discussione and Friendship in Italian Peer Culture / William A. Corsaro, Thomas A. Rizzo 227
- Part IV Middle and Later Childhood: Work, Play, Participation, and Learning 245
- 20 Age and Responsibility / Barbara Rogoff, Martha Julia Sellers, Sergio Pirrotta, Nathan Fox, Sheldon H. White 251
- 21 Child and Sibling Caregiving / Thomas S. Weisner, Ronald Gallimore 264
- 22 Altruistic and Egoistic Behavior of Children in Six Cultures / John W. M. Whiting, Beatrice Blyth Whiting 270
- 23 Children's Daily Lives among the Yucatec Maya / Suzanne Gaskins 280
- 24 Children's Work, Play, and Relationships among the Giriama of Kenya / Martha Wenger 289.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780631229759
- 0631229752
- 9780631229766
- 0631229760
- OCLC:
- 124036197
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- Publisher description
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