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Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader
Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader
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ISBN: 0631229760
Author: LeVine, Robert A.
Condition: new
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-developmentRecent articles examine diverse contexts of childhood in ecological, semiotic, and sociolinguistic termsIncludes ethnographic studies of childhood in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, Europe and North AmericaIlluminates the process through which people become the bearers of culturally/historically specific identitiesServes as an ideal text for anthropology courses focusing on childhood, as well as classes on development psychology