Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• LeVine, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1932-
• New, Rebecca Staples

Description

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

Series Statement

Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 11

Uniform Title

Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 11.

Subject

• Socialization > Cross-cultural studies
• Child development > Cross-cultural studies
• Children > Social conditions > Cross-cultural studies
• Child rearing > Cross-cultural studies
• Ethnology
• Kinderen
• Ontwikkeling (psychologie)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S. New -- Pt. I. Discovering Diversity in Childhood: Early Works -- 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 -- 6. The Comparative Study of Parenting / Robert A. LeVine, Suzanne Dixon, Sarah E. LeVine, Amy Richman, Constance Keefer, P. Herbert Liederman and 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 and 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 and Ghislaine Van Roosmalen -- 12. Attachment in Anthropological Perspective / Robert A. LeVine and Karin Norman -- 13. An Experiment in Infant Care: Children of the Kibbutz / Melford E. Spiro and Audrey G. Spiro -- Pt. III. Early Childhood: Language Acquisition, Socialization, and Enculturation -- 14. The Acquisition of Communicative Style in Japanese / Patricia M. Clancy -- 15. Why African Children Are So Hard to Test / Sara Harkness and 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 and Heidi Fung -- 18. Child's Play in Italian Perspective / Rebecca S. New -- 19. Discussione and Friendship in Italian Peer Culture / William A. Corsaro and Thomas A. Rizzo -- Pt. IV. Middle and Later Childhood: Work, Play, Participation and Learning -- 20. Age and Responsibility / Barbara Rogoff, Martha Julia Sellers, Sergio Pirrotta, Nathan Fox and Sheldon H. White -- 21. Child and Sibling Caregiving / Thomas S. Weisner and Ronald Gallimore -- 22. Altruistic and Egoistic Behavior of Children in Six Cultures / John W. M. Whiting and 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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

• 2007016797
• 99937744194

OCLC

• ocn124036197
• 124036197
• SCSB-5524777

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries