Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers पीडीएफ

डेविड एफ। लैंसी यूटा स्टेट यूनिवर्सिटी में नृविज्ञान के एमेरिटस प्रोफेसर हैं। वह बचपन और संस्कृति पर कई पुस्तकों के लेखक/संपादक हैं, जिनमें अनुभूति और गणित में क्रॉस-कल्चरल स्टडीज (1983), स्टडी चिल्ड्रन एंड स्कूल्स (2001), प्लेइंग ऑन द मदर ग्राउंड: कल्चरल रूटीन फॉर चिल्ड्रन लर्निंग (1996) और एंथ्रोपोलॉजिकल शामिल हैं। बचपन में सीखने पर परिप्रेक्ष्य (2010)।

Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers पीडीएफ डेविड लैंसी

The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. Within the field of anthropology, however, a contrasting and more varied view is emerging. While the phenomenon of children as workers is ephemeral in WEIRD society and in the literature on child development, there is ample cross-cultural and historical evidence of children making vital contributions to the family economy. Children’s “labor” is of great interest to researchers, but widely treated as extra-cultural—an aberration that must be controlled. Work as a central component in children’s lives, development, and identity goes unappreciated. Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers aims to rectify that omission by surveying and synthesizing a robust corpus of material, with particular emphasis on two prominent themes: the processes involved in learning to work and the interaction between ontogeny and children’s roles as workers.