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

David F. Lancy 是犹他州立大学人类学名誉教授。 他是几本关于儿童和文化的书籍的作者/编辑，包括认知和数学的跨文化研究（1983 年）、研究儿童和学校（2001 年）、在母地玩耍：儿童学习的文化惯例（1996 年）和人类学 关于儿童学习的观点（2010 年）。

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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.