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How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this book sets out to answer these questions, and argues that our common understandings about children are narrowly culture-bound. Enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, the book examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers within the family or community, their treatment at different ages, their play, work,…
A multidisciplinary text, jargon-free and theoretically transparent, with references to history, psychology, primate studies, and evolutionary biology, so readers from neighbouring disciplines can enjoy the book
Richly illustrated with evocative photographs
A broad synthesis of the literature, with an encyclopaedic bibliography and vivid anecdotes from ethnography and the daily press
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Author
David F. Lancy,Utah State University
David F. Lancy is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University. He is author/editor of several books on childhood and culture, including Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics (1983), Studying Children and Schools (2001), Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Learning (1996) and Anthropological Perspectives on Learning in Childhood (2010).