Anthropology and child development : a cross-cultural reader /

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Imprint:Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
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
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Other authors / contributors:LeVine, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1932-
New, Rebecca Staples.
ISBN:9780631229759 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0631229752 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780631229766 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0631229760 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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