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Title:

Anthropology and child development : a cross-cultural reader / edited by Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S. New.

Publisher:

Blackwell Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

x, 324 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Socialization--Cross-cultural studies.
Child development--Cross-cultural studies.
Children--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies.
Child rearing--Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnology.

Other Authors:

LeVine, Robert Alan, 1932-
New, Rebecca Staples.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Robert A. LeVine, Rebecca S. New -- pt. I. Discovering diversity in childhood : early works -- Introduction -- 1. Plasticity in child development / Franz Boas -- 2. The ethnography of childhood / Margaret Mead -- 3. Childhood in the Trobriand Islands, Melanesia / Bronislaw Malinowski -- 4. Tallensi childhood in Ghana / Meyer Fortes -- 5. Continuities and discontinuities in cultural conditioning / Ruth Benedict -- pt. II. Infant care : cultural variation in parental goals and practices -- Introduction -- 6. The comparative study of parenting -- Robert A. LeVine, Suzanne Dixon, Sarah E. LeVine, Amy Richman, Constance Keefer, P. Herbert Liederman, T. Berry Brazelton -- 7. Infant care in the Kalahari Desert / Melvin J. Konner -- 8. Multiple caregiving in the Ituri Forest / Edward Z. Tronick, Gilda A. Morelli, Steve Winn -- 9. Fathers and infants among Aka pygmies / Barry S. Hewlett -- 10. Swaddling, cradleboards and the development of children / James S. Chisholm -- 11. Talking and playing with babies : ideologies of child-rearing / Catherine Snow, Akke de Blauw, Ghislaine Van Roosmalen -- 12. Attachment anthropological perspective / Robert A. LeVine, Karin Norman -- 13. An experiment in infant care : children of the kibbutz / Melford E. Spiro with the assistance of Audrey G. Spiro --
pt. III. Early childhood : language acquisition, socialization and enculturation -- Introduction -- 14. The acquisition of communicative style in Japanese / Patricia M. Clancy -- 15. Why African children are so hard to test / Sara Harkness, Charles M. Super -- 16. Autonomy and aggression in the three-year-old : the Utku Eskimo case / Jean L. Briggs -- 17. Narrating transgressions in U.S. and Taiwan / Peggy J. Miller, Todd L. Sandel, Chung-Hui Liang, Heidi Fung -- 18. Child's play in Italian perspective / Rebecca S. New -- 19. Discussione and friendship in Italian peer culture / William A. Corsaro, Thomas A. Rizzo -- pt. IV. Middle and later childhood : work, play, participation, learning -- Introduction -- 20. Age and responsibility / Barbara Rogoff, Martha Julia Sellers, Sergio Pirrotta, Nathan Fox, Sheldon H. White -- 21. Child and sibling caregiving / Thomas S. Weisner, Ronald Gallimore -- 22. Altruistic and egoistic behavior of children in six cultures / John W.M. Whiting, Beatrice Blyth Whiting -- 23. Children's daily lives among the Yucatec Maya / Suzanne Gaskins -- 24. Children's work, play and relationships among the Giriama of Kenya / Martha Wenger.

Series:

Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 11

ISBN:

0631229760 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780631229766 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0631229752 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780631229759 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007016797

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)