Textbook
Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural ReaderISBN: 978-0-631-22976-6
Paperback
338 pages
February 2008, ©2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- 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