The Anthropology of Childhood - David F. Lancy

The Anthropology of Childhood

Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

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Buch | Hardcover
480 Seiten
2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-88773-1 (ISBN)
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Bringing together key evidence from cultural anthropology, history, and primate studies, Lancy introduces the reader to societies where children are viewed as unwanted, inconvenient 'changelings'. Enriched with vivid anecdotes, evocative photographs and written in a politically balanced style, this class-tested text is a must-read for students and practitioners alike.
The raising of children, their role in society, and the degree to which family and community is structured around them, varies quite significantly around the world. The Anthropology of Childhood provides the first comprehensive review of the literature on children from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Bringing together key evidence from cultural anthropology, history, and primate studies, it argues that our common understandings about children are narrowly culture-bound. Whereas dominant society views children as precious, innocent and preternaturally cute 'cherubs', Lancy introduces the reader to societies where children are viewed as unwanted, inconvenient 'changelings', or as desired but pragmatically commoditized 'chattels'. Looking in particular at family structure and reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers, their treatment at different ages, their play, work, schooling, and transition to adulthood, this volume provides a rich, interesting, and original portrait of children in past and contemporary cultures. A must-read for anyone interested in childhood.

David F. Lancy is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, Utah State University.

1. Where do children come from?; 2. To make a child; 3. A child's worth; 4. It takes a village; 5. Making sense; 6. Marbles and morals; 7. His first goat; 8. Living in limbo; 9. How schools can raise property values; 10. Suffer the children.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.11.2008
Zusatzinfo 33 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 234 mm
Gewicht 880 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-521-88773-9 / 0521887739
ISBN-13 978-0-521-88773-1 / 9780521887731
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