Alma Gottlieb, Judy S Deloache

Gebundenes Buch

A World of Babies

Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies

Beschreibung

A fully revised and updated second edition of this successful guide to childcare advice in different cultures around the globe.

Autor

Alma Gottlieb is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at Brown University. She conducted long-term fieldwork in Beng communities in Ivory Coast (1979-93) and now connects with young Beng people through social media. A full-length ethnography of Beng childrearing practices appeared as The Afterlife Is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa (2004); she has also written the Beng-English Dictionary (with M. Lynne Murphy, 1995) and Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought (1992). With proceeds from two memoirs of their lives with the Beng - Parallel Worlds (1993) and Braided Worlds (2012) - Gottlieb and fiction writer Philip Graham co-founded the Beng Community Fund, a non-governmental organization that funds development projects in Beng villages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised, Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 387
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9781107137295
• ISBN-10: 1107137292
• Artikelnr.: 45154632