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Overview
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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
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Levine, Robert A.
- ISBN: 9780631229766
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.65 x 1.00
- Number Of Pages: 338
- Publication Year: 2008
Language:
English
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