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Anthropology of Childhood and Youth: International and Historical Perspectives

Anthropology of Childhood and Youth: International and Historical Perspectives

Vitale, Geoffrey

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0739198629
ISBN13: 9780739198629
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Apr 15 2016
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Anthropology of Childhood and Youth, author Geoffrey Vitale shows the ways in which people understand, raise, and educate children and youth differently from century to century and from country to country according to the culture, lifestyle, politics, and economics of their place of origin. He also introduces the reader to the manner in which professionals relate to these matters, with a focus on an anthropological perspective.

Vitale discusses similar problems and matters for inquiry a thousand years apart, and separated by oceans. The adoption or abandonment of children, for instance, created problems of inheritance, sexual relationship, and family support and integration in Ancient Greece, just as it does today in contemporary Japan. The author therefore, proposes a flexible tour of human society, intended essentially to introduce the reader to points of view, strategies, and approaches that go beyond the purely domestic, both in place and time--which may introduce new ideas and present new theories and diverse understandings.

Anthropology of Childhood and Youth establishes the work of a wide range of specialists and familiarizes readers both with their skills and their writings.

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