The Anthropology of Childhood Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings
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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 the family or community, their treatment at different ages, their play, work,…
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Key features
- A multidisciplinary text, jargon-free and theoretically transparent, with references to history, psychology, primate studies, and evolutionary biology, so readers from neighbouring disciplines can enjoy the book
- Richly illustrated with evocative photographs
- A broad synthesis of the literature, with an encyclopaedic bibliography and vivid anecdotes from ethnography and the daily press
Awards
- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139680530
- Editions 2nd Edition
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 28 May 2018
- ISBN: 9781139680530
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