Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader

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

Author: Robert A. Levine
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02/11/2008
Series: Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropol #3
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.65h x 6.66w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780631229766