The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings 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）。

The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings pdf 大卫·兰西

How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this book sets out to answer these questions, and argues that our common understandings about children are narrowly culture-bound. Enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, the book examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers within family or community, their treatment at different ages, their play, work, schooling, and transition to adulthood. The result is a nuanced and credible picture of childhood in different cultures, past and present. Organised developmentally, moving from infancy through to adolescence and early adulthood, this new edition reviews and catalogues the findings of over 100 years of anthropological scholarship dealing with childhood and adolescence, drawing on over 750 newly added sources, and engaging with newly emerging issues relevant to the world of childhood today.