The anthropology of childhood : cherubs, chattel, changelings /

The anthropology of childhood : cherubs, chattel, changelings /

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Author / Creator:	Lancy, David F., author.
Edition:	Second edition.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	xiv, 533 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Children -- Cross-cultural studies. Child rearing -- Cross-cultural studies. Children. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10134485

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ISBN:	9781107072664 (hardback) 1107072662 (hardback) 9781107420984 (paperback) 1107420989 (paperback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-515) and indexes.
Summary:	"How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this book sets out to answer these questions, and argues that our common understandings about children are narrowly culture-bound. Enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, the book examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers within family or community, 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. Organised developmentally, moving from infancy through to adolescence and early adulthood, this new edition reviews and catalogues the findings of over 100 years of anthropological scholarship dealing with childhood and adolescence, drawing on over 750 newly added sources, and engaging with newly emerging issues relevant to the world of childhood today"--

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Call Number:	GN482.L36 2015
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