Anthropology of Childhood Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

Name: Anthropology of Childhood Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings
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ISBN: 9780521716031

ISBN-10: 0521716039

ISBN-13: 9780521716031

Edition: 2008

Authors: David F. Lancy

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The raising of children, their role in society, and the degree to which family and community is structured around them, varies quite significantly around the world. The Anthropology of Childhood provides the first comprehensive review of the literature on children from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Bringing together key evidence from cultural anthropology, history, and primate studies, it argues that our common understandings about children are narrowly culture-bound. Whereas dominant society views children as precious, innocent and preternaturally cute 'cherubs', Lancy introduces the reader to societies where children are viewed as unwanted, inconvenient 'changelings', or as…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694



List of plates


Picture credits


Preface



Where do children come from?



To make a child



A child's worth



It takes a village



Making sense



Of marbles and morals



His first goat



Living in limbo



How schools can raise property values



Suffer the children


References


Author index


Topic index


Society index