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Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader
Robert A. LeVine (Editor), Rebecca S. New (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-22975-9
Hardcover
336 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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-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
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