Anthropology and child development : a cross-cultural reader /
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008. |
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| Description: | x, 324 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 11 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6669371 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Discovering Diversity in Childhood: Early Works
- Introduction
- 1. Plasticity in Child Development
- 2. The Ethnography of Childhood
- 3. Childhood in the Trobriand Islands, Melanesia
- 4. Tallensi Childhood in Ghana
- 5. Continuities and Discontinuities in Cultural Conditioning
- Part II. Infant Care: Cultural Variation in Parental Goals and Practices
- Introduction
- 6. The Comparative Study of Parenting
- 7. Infant Care in the Kalahari Desert
- 8. Multiple Caregiving in the Ituri Forest
- 9. Fathers and Infants among Aka Pygmies
- 10. Swaddling, Cradleboards and the Development of Children
- 11. Talking and Playing with Babies: Ideologies of Child-Rearing
- 12. Attachment in Anthropological Perspective
- 13. An Experiment in Infant Care: Children of the Kibbutz
- Part III. Early Childhood: Language Acquisition, Socialization, and Enculturation
- Introduction
- 14. The Acquisition of Communicative Style in Japanese
- 15. Why African Children Are So Hard to Test
- 16. Autonomy and Aggression in the Three-Year-Old: The Utku Eskimo Case
- 17. Narrating Transgressions in U.S. and Taiwan
- 18. Child's Play in Italian Perspective
- 19. Discussione and Friendship in Italian Peer Culture
- Part IV. Middle and Later Childhood: Work, Play, Participation, and Learning
- Introduction
- 20. Age and Responsibility
- 21. Child and Sibling Caregiving
- 22. Altruistic and Egoistic Behavior of Children in Six Cultures
- 23. Children's Daily Lives among the Yucatec Maya
- 24. Children's Work, Play, and Relationships among the Giriama of Kenya
- Epilogue
- Index
