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  • An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children's Lives
  • Written by author Montgomery, Heather
  • Published by Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 2008
  • In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one
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Authors

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Childhood within Anthropology.

Introduction.

Children: The First Primitives.

Culture and Personality.

Cross-Cultural Studies of Child-Rearing.

Children in British Anthropology.

The Gendered Child.

Child-Centered Anthropology.

Conclusion.

2. What is a Child?.

Introduction.

Childhood as a Modern Idea: The Influence of Philippe Ariès.

Conceptualizations of Childhood.

Children as Incompetent or Subordinate.

Children as Equals.

Children as a Means of Forming Families and Giving StatusChildren as an Economic Investment.

Unwanted and Nonhuman Children.

Conclusion.

3. The Beginning of Childhood.

Introduction.

Fetuses.

Spirit Children.

Reincarnation.

Anomalies.

Conclusion.

4. Family, Friends, and Peers.

Introduction.

The Role of Parents.

Adoption and Fosterage.

Children outside the Family.

Siblings.

Friends and Peer Groups.

Conclusion.

5. Talking, Playing, and Working.

Introduction.

Learning Language.

Children and Play.

Work or Play?.

Conclusion.

6. Discipline, Punishment, and Abuse.

Introduction.

Discipline and Punishment in the Western Tradition.

Physical Punishment.

Alternatives to Physical Punishment.

Who Can Punish Children?.

Child Abuse.

Conclusion.

7. Children and Sexuality.

Introduction.

Anthropology, Sexuality, and Childhood.

Children and Sex: The Influence of Freud.

Incest and Abuse.

Ethnographies of Children and Sexuality.

Child Prostitution.

Conclusion.

8. Adolescence and Initiation.

Introduction.

What is Adolescence?.

Adolescence and Globalization.

Initiation.

Initiation: A Psychological Approach.

Initiation and Education.

Initiation and Gender.

Initiation: The End of Childhood?.

Conclusion.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index


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