Anthropology and Child Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology and Child Development write by Robert A. LeVine. This book was released on 2008-02-11. Anthropology and Child Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood
The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood write by David F. Lancy. This book was released on 2010. The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Anthropological research on learning in childhood has been scarce, but this book will change that. It demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children's learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it shows the particular contribution that children's learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Book jacket.
The Anthropology of Childhood
The Anthropology of Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anthropology of Childhood write by David F. Lancy. This book was released on 2015. The Anthropology of Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, this revised edition examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers, 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.
An Introduction to Childhood
An Introduction to Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to Childhood write by Heather Montgomery. This book was released on 2011-09-09. An Introduction to Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty years. Offers a comprehensive overview of childhood from an anthropological perspective Draws upon a wide range of examples and evidence from different geographical areas and belief systems Synthesizes existing literature on the anthropology of childhood, while providing a fresh perspective Engages students with illustrative ethnographies to illuminate key topics and themes
Transformations
Transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformations write by Helen Schwartzman. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too serious. Eventually, I realized that these concerns were cast in terms of the major dichotomy that I wished to question, that is, the very perva sive and very inaccurate division that Western cultures make between play and seriousness (or play and work, fantasy and reality, and so forth). The study of play provides researchers with a special arena for re-thinking this opposition, and in this book an attempt is made to do this by reviewing and evaluating studies of children's transformations (their play) in relation to the history of anthropologists' transformations (their theories). While studying play, I have wondered in the company of many individuals. I would first like to thank my husband, John Schwartzman, for acting as both my strongest supporter and, as an anthropological colleague, my severest critic. His sense of nonsense is always novel as well as instructive. I am also very grateful to Linda Barbera-Stein for her Sherlock Holmes style help in locating obscure references, checking and cross-checking information, and patience and persistence in the face of what at times appeared to be bibliographic chaos. I also owe special thanks to my teachers of anthropology-Paul J. Bohannan, Johannes Fabian, Edward T. Hall, and Roy Wagner-whose various orientations have directly and indirectly influenced the approach presented in this book.
