Jing Xu

'Unruly' Children

Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village

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Produktbeschreibung

"Integrating humanistic interpretation with computational and machine-learning approaches, this book examines the 1958-1960 Taiwan fieldnotes of two renowned anthropologists. The world's first ethnographic study on Han children, this academic exploration sheds light on children's moral development amid historical upheaval. Ideal for anthropology and educational studies undergrad and graduate courses"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009416276
• ISBN-10: 1009416278
• Artikelnr.: 70055158

Autorenporträt

Jing Xu is an anthropologist at the University of Washington and the author of The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool (Stanford University Press, 2017). She pursues interdisciplinary research, bringing together humanistic and scientific perspectives to study how humans become moral persons.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: learning morality in a Taiwan village
1. Fieldwork beyond fieldwork: reconstructing an ethnography of children through historical fieldnotes
2. Crime and punishment: parenting and the disobedient child
3. Playful creatures: learning morality in peer play
4. Gendered morality: naughty boys and fierce girls
5. Care and rivalry: an untold tale of a sibling dyad
Epilogue: taking children seriously
Afterword.