Anthropology of Childhood and Youth - Vitale, Geoffrey
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In Anthropology of Childhood and Youth, author Geoffrey Vitale shows the ways in which people understand, raise, and educate children and youth differently from century to century and from country to country according to the culture, lifestyle, politics, and economics of their place of origin. He also introduces the reader to the manner in which professionals relate to these matters, with a focus on an anthropological perspective. Vitale discusses similar problems and matters for inquiry a thousand years apart, and separated by oceans. The adoption or abandonment of children, for instance,…mehr

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In Anthropology of Childhood and Youth, author Geoffrey Vitale shows the ways in which people understand, raise, and educate children and youth differently from century to century and from country to country according to the culture, lifestyle, politics, and economics of their place of origin. He also introduces the reader to the manner in which professionals relate to these matters, with a focus on an anthropological perspective. Vitale discusses similar problems and matters for inquiry a thousand years apart, and separated by oceans. The adoption or abandonment of children, for instance, created problems of inheritance, sexual relationship, and family support and integration in Ancient Greece, just as it does today in contemporary Japan. The author therefore, proposes a flexible tour of human society, intended essentially to introduce the reader to points of view, strategies, and approaches that go beyond the purely domestic, both in place and time-which may introduce new ideas and present new theories and diverse understandings. Anthropology of Childhood and Youth establishes the work of a wide range of specialists and familiarizes readers both with their skills and their writings.
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The author is British by birth and was brought up in London. His military service involved translating Russian in Berlin, followed by financially tricky two years studying law at King's College. Lacking money, he found a job which was to teach in Morocco for four years. He subsequently did his BA with the University of Bordeaux and his MA and PhD at the Sorbonne. This was followed by him moving to Canada as a university professor and becoming involved with a considerable number of travel activities sponsored by federal and/or provincial government. This also included five months working as a curriculum advisor in the Comoro Islands in 1982, at a time when its professional army was controlled by mercenaries, headed by Bob Denard, a true and faithful 'white knight'. Other tasks over the past years have included a year with the University of Aveiro in Portugal (1985-86); two and a half months of lecture tour in Asia, sponsored by the Canadian Secretary of State (1990); four two-month working stays in Vietnam on behalf of the Canadian International Development Agency (1992-93); guest lecturer at University of Salamanca (1994); and two months teaching at a Japanese private school in Kyoto, an activity that provided the basis for his study of children historically and internationally, Anthropology of Childhood and Youth (1997); Period in Costa Rica, literary workshops and National University, Heredia (2001).