Anthropology and child development : a cross-cultural reader

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S. New. Part I: Discovering Diversity in Childhood: Early Works:. Introduction. 1. Plasticity in Child Development: Franz Boas. 2. The Ethnography of Childhood: Margaret Mead. 3. Childhood in the Trobriand Islands, Melanesia: Bronislaw Malinowski. 4. Tallensi Childhood in Ghana: Meyer Fortes. 5. Continuities & Discontinuities in Cultural Conditioning: Ruth Benedict. Part II: Infant Care: Cultural Variation in Parental Goals and Practices:. Introduction. 6. The Comparative Study: Robert A. LeVine, Suzanne Dixon, Sarah E. LeVine, Amy Richman, Constance Keefer, P. Herbert Liederman and T. Berry Brazelton. 7. Infant Care in the Kalahari Desert: Melvin J. Konner. 8. Multiple Caretaking in the Ituri Forest: Edward Z. Tronick, Gilda A. Morelli and Steve Winn. 9. Fathers and Infants among Aka Pygmies: Barry S. Hewlett. 10. Swaddling, Cradleboards and the Development of Children: James S. Chisholm. 11. Talking and Playing with Babies: Ideologies of Child-Rearing: Catherine Snow, Akke de Blauw and Ghislaine Van Roosmalen. 12. Attachment in Anthropological Perspective: R. LeVine and Karin Norman. 13. An Experiment in Infant Care: Children of the Kibbutz: Melford E. Spiro with the assistance of Audrey G. Spiro. Part III: Early Childhood: Language Acquisition, Socialization and Enculturation:. Introduction. 14. The Acquisition of Communicative Style in Japanese: Patricia M. Clancy. 15. Why African Children Are So Hard to Test: Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super. 16. Autonomy and Aggression in the Three-Year-Old: the Utku Eskimo Case: Jean L. Briggs. 17. Narrating Transgressions in U.S. and Taiwan: Peggy J. Miller, Todd L. Sandel, Chung-Hui Liang and Heidi Fung. 18. Child's Play in Italian Perspective: Rebecca S. New. 19. Discussione and Friendship in Italian Peer Culture: William A. Corsaro and Thomas A. Rizzo. Part IV: Middle and Later Childhood: Work, Play, Participation, Learning:. Introduction. 20. Age and Responsibility: Barbara Rogoff, Martha Julia Sellers, Sergio Pirrotta, Nathan Fox, and Sheldon H. White. 21. Child and Sibling Caregiving: Thomas Sl Weisner and Ronald Gallimore. 22. Altruistic and Egoistic Behavior of Children in Six Cultures: John W. M. Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. 23. Children's Daily Lives among the Yucatec Maya: Suzanne Gaskins. 24. Children's Work, Play, and Relationships among the Giriama of Kenya: Martha Wenger. Epilogue. Index