Encounters with wild children : temptation and disappointment in the study of human nature / Adriana S. Benzaquen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benzaquén, Adriana S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feral children.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Wild children

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited. Adriana Benzaquén explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate Western scientists and shows how the knowledge they have generated in different disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, linguistics, and sociology, has contributed to the shaping and reshaping of the modern understanding of "the child" and affected the social and institutional practices directed at all children in schools, welfare, mental health, and the law.

Contents:

The accounts

The list, the class, the story-form

Peter of Hanover and the wild girl of Songi

The debates

The wild boy of Aveyron

Victor's afterlife

Wolf children

Confinement and freedom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612866579

9780773580855

0773580859

9781282866577

1282866575

9780773576117

0773576118

OCLC:

713186450