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Anthropology of Childhood and Youth
International and Historical Perspectives
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2014
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In Anthropology of Childhood and Youth, author Geoffrey Vitale shows the ways in which people understand, raise, and educate children and youth differently from century to century and from country to country according to the culture, lifestyle, politics, and economics of their place of origin. He also introduces the reader to the manner in which professionals relate to these matters, with a focus on an anthropological perspective.
Vitale discusses similar problems and matters for inquiry a thousand years apart, and separated by oceans. The adoption or abandonment of children, for instance, created problems of inheritance, sexual relationship, and family support and integration in Ancient Greece, just as it does today in contemporary Japan. The author therefore, proposes a flexible tour of human society, intended essentially to introduce the reader to points of view, strategies, and approaches that go beyond the purely domestic, both in place and time—which may introduce new ideas and present new theories and diverse understandings.
Anthropology of Childhood and Youth establishes the work of a wide range of specialists and familiarizes readers both with their skills and their writings.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9216-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9217-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
287
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Contents No access
List of Tables No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: The Ages of Man No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter Two: Infanticide and Abandonment No access Pages 15 - 44
Chapter Three: Adoption and Oblation No access Pages 45 - 88
Chapter Four: Protecting Children: Foundling Hospitals and Orphanages No access Pages 89 - 130
Chapter Five: Education: Origins and Development No access Pages 131 - 188
Chapter Six: Education: Demographics and Dropouts No access Pages 189 - 220
Chapter Seven: Child Trafficking No access Pages 221 - 256
