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Abandoned Children

Abandoned Children

Panter-Brick, Catherine
Panter-Brick, Catherine
Smith, Malcolm T.

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AnthropologyAbuseWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0521775558
ISBN13: 9780521775557
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 3 2000
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
The situation of children abandoned by adults, in foundling homes, sleeping rough in the streets, in refugee camps, and in other circumstances, attracts much political and journalistic attention, but surprisingly little from social scientists. As the editors of this volume point out, there is therefore not enough said about the varieties of experiences summarized as abandonment. Nor has enough effort been put into studying the perspectives of children themselves on their situation. Situating the discourse on child abandonment in the more general field of debate on children, both historical and ethnographic, this book attempts to show that the presentations of abandoned children tend to take for granted ethnocentric ideas about what children can and should do, and about what their relationship should be with adults.

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