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 hundred and fifty years.
Offers a comprehensive overview of childhood from an anthropological perspective
Draws upon a wide range of examples and evidence from different geographical areas and belief systems
Synthesizes existing literature on the anthropology of childhood, while providing a fresh perspective
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In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by a...
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 hundred and fifty years.
Offers a comprehensive overview of childhood from an anthropological perspective
Draws upon a wide range of examples and evidence from different geographical areas and belief systems
Synthesizes existing literature on the anthropology of childhood, while providing a fresh perspective
...
In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by a...
As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it affects women's experiences that differ significantly from those of men. The (auto)biographical narratives in this volume focus on some of the most disturbing effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a sense of dislocation that goes well beyond the geographical meaning of the word; it involves...
As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contrib...
Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences. The contributing authors seek to understand how violence is enacted against children in infancy, adolescence, in school, in care, at home and on the street.
Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of child...
This landmark publication from Routledge reflects the widespread recognition of Childhood Studies as a significant and mature area of cross-disciplinary study and research. And as serious scholarly work in and around Childhood Studies blossoms as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge s acclaimed Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature.
With contributions from a broad range of disciplines (including Sociology, Social Policy,...
This landmark publication from Routledge reflects the widespread recognition of Childhood Studies as a significant and mature area of cross-discipl...
