The anthropology of learning in childhood pdf

David F. Lancy es profesor emérito de antropología en la Universidad Estatal de Utah. Es autor / editor de varios libros sobre la infancia y la cultura, incluidos Estudios transculturales en cognición y matemáticas (1983), Estudiar niños y escuelas (2001), Jugar en el terreno materno: rutinas culturales para el aprendizaje de los niños (1996) y Antropología. Perspectivas sobre el aprendizaje en la infancia (2010).

The anthropology of learning in childhood pdf por David Lancy

The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a large, mural-like portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Even a casual reading of the literature on childhood will persuade one that learning is a very important topic that commands the attention of tens of thousands of scholars and practitioners. Yet, anthropological research on children has exerted relatively little influence on this community. This book will change that. The book demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children's learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it demonstrates the particular contribution that children's learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Chapters have been contributed in archaeology, primatology, biological and cultural anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology.