David F. Lancy (Utah State University)

The Anthropology of Childhood

Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, this revised edition examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers, their treatment at different ages, their play, work, schooling, and transition to adulthood. The result is a nuanced and credible picture of childhood in different cultures, past and present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 547
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9781107420984
• ISBN-10: 1107420989
• Artikelnr.: 41128782

Autorenporträt

David F. Lancy is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University. He is author/editor of several books on childhood and culture, including Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics (1983), Studying Children and Schools (2001), Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Learning (1996) and Anthropological Perspectives on Learning in Childhood (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Where do children come from?
2. Valuing children
3. To make a child
4. It takes a village
5. Making sense
6. Of marbles and morals
7. The chore curriculum
8. Living in limbo
9. Taming the autonomous learner
10. Too little childhood? Too much?
References
Author index
Topic index
Society index.