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This unprecedented collection of articles is an introduction to the study of cultural variations in childhood across the world and to the theoretical frameworks for investigating and interpreting them.
  • Presents a history of cross-cultural approaches to child-development
  • Recent articles examine diverse contexts of childhood in ecological, semiotic, and sociolinguistic terms
  • Includes ethnographic studies of childhood in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, Europe and North America
  • Illuminates the process through which people become the bearers of culturally/historically specific identities
  • Serves as an ideal text for anthropology courses focusing on childhood, as well as classes on development psychology

Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 10/01/2008
    ISBN13: 9780631229759, 978-0631229759
    ISBN10: 0631229752

    Number of Pages: 336

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    This unprecedented collection of articles is an introduction to the study of cultural variations in childhood across the world and to the theoretical frameworks for investigating and interpreting them.
    • Presents a history of cross-cultural approaches to child-development
    • Recent articles examine diverse contexts of childhood in ecological, semiotic, and sociolinguistic terms
    • Includes ethnographic studies of childhood in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, Europe and North America
    • Illuminates the process through which people become the bearers of culturally/historically specific identities
    • Serves as an ideal text for anthropology courses focusing on childhood, as well as classes on development psychology

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