Research Catalog

Title

The significance of children and animals : social development and our connections to other species / Gene Myers.

Author

Myers, Gene (O. Gene)

Publication

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2007.

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Details

Description

xvi, 241 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Based on Myers's year-long study of two dozen children, child-animal interactions are captured in the children's own words and actions, revealing the importance of a diversity of animals to the child's social development. Providing the first comprehensive framework for understanding a wide range of everyday experiences with animals, the book shows in detail how nonverbal interactions, emotions, pretend play, language, and the social environment contribute to the child's sense of self in relation to animals."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

New directions in the human-animal bond

Uniform Title

New directions in the human-animal bond

Subject

• Children and animals
• Child development
• Child psychology
• Human-animal relationships
• Human-Animal Bond
• Child Development
• Psychology, Child
• Child
• Psychology, Child
• Child Behavior

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Children and animals. 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-231) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the sense of connection -- Childhood animality and development: child and animal in culture and theory -- An ecology of subjects: animals and the child's self -- The immediate other: animate relating -- The creature that connects: sharing feelings, words, and minds -- Pretend play: self as human, self as animal -- The animal in the cultural context of development.

ISBN

• 1557534292
• 9781557534293

LCCN

^^2006016922

OCLC

• 69423251
• SCSB-10864414

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library