Title:
An introduction to childhood : anthropological perspectives on children's lives / Heather Montgomery.
Main Entry:
Montgomery, Heather (Heather Kate)
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell,
Publication Date:
2009.
Publication Place:
Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
ISBN:
9781405125901 (pbk. : alk. paper)
140512590X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Children -- Cross-cultural studies.
Children -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child development -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child rearing -- Cross-cultural studies.
Children -- History.
Enfants -- Etudes transculturelles.
Enfants -- Conditions sociales -- Etudes transculturelles.
Enfants -- Développement -- Etudes transculturelles.
Education des enfants -- Etudes transculturelles.
Enfants -- Histoire.
Contents:
1. Childhood within anthropology : Children: the first primitives ; Culture and personality ; Cross-cultural studies of child-rearing ; Children in British anthropology ; The gendered child ; Child-centered anthropology -- 2. What is a child? : Childhood as a modern idea: the influence of Philippe Ariلes ; Conceptualizations of childhood ; Children as incompetent or subordinate ; Children as equals ; Children as a means of forming families and giving status ; Children as an economic investment ; Unwanted and non-human children -- 3. The beginning of childhood : Fetuses ; Spirit children ; Reincarnation ; Anomalies -- 4. Family, friends and peers : The role of parents ; Adoption and fosterage ; Children outside the family ; Siblings ; Friends and peer groups -- 5. Talking, playing and working : Learning language ; Children and play ; Work or play? -- 6. Discipline, punishment and abuse : Discipline and punishment in the Western tradition ; Physical punishment ; Alternatives to physical punishment ; Who can punish children? ; Child abuse -- 7. Children and sexuality : Anthropology, sexuality and childhood ; Children and sex: the influence of Freud ; Incest and abuse ; Ethnographies of children and sexuality ; Child prostitution -- 8. Adolescence and initiation : What is adolescence? ; Adolescence and globalization ; Initiation ; Initiation: a psychological approach ; Initiation and education ; Initiation and gender ; Initiation: the end of childhood? -- Conclusion.
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