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Learning from the children : childhood, culture and identity in a changing world / edited by Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New Directions in Anthropology
- New directions in anthropology ; v. 35
- New Directions in Anthropology ; 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Cross-cultural studies.
- Children.
- Child psychology--Cross-cultural studies.
- Child psychology.
- Child development--Cross-cultural studies.
- Child development.
- Parenting--Cross-cultural studies.
- Parenting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult-child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the
- Contents:
- LEARNING FROM THE CHILDREN; New Directions in Anthropology; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Changing Norms; Chapter 1: Invisible Routes, Invisible Lives: The Multiple Worlds of Runaway and Missing Women and Girls in Upper Sindh, Pakistan; Chapter 2: Between Tradition and Modernization: Under standing the Problem of Female Bedouin Dropouts; Part II: LISTENING AND LEARNING; Chapter 3: More than One Rung on the Career Ladder: Examining Barriers to the Labour Market for Young Women Living in Poverty
- Chapter 4: 'We're Not Poor - The Others Are': Talking with Children about Poverty and Social Exclusion in Milton Keynes, EnglandChapter 5: Dancing with an Angel: What I Have Learnt from My 'Special Needs' Daughter, Elisa; Chapter 6: Being Parented? Children and Young People 's Engagement with Parenting Activities; Part III: CROSS-CULTURAL MOBILITY; Chapter 7: Children 's Moving Stories: How the Children of British Life style Migrants Cope with Super -Diversity; Chapter 8: Children Negotiating Identity in Mallorca
- Chapter 9: Identity without Birthright: Negotiating Children's Citizenship and Identity in Cross-Cultural BureaucracyChapter 10: Doing Field work with Children in Japan; Notes on Contributors; Untitled
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613717375
- 9781280876066
- 1280876069
- 9780857453266
- 0857453262
- OCLC:
- 808867099
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