An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children's Lives

by Heather Montgomery

Book Overview

In An Introduction to Childhood , Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty years. Offers a comprehensive overview of childhood from an anthropological perspective Draws upon a wide range of examples and evidence from different geographical areas and belief systems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140512590X
• ISBN13: 9781405125901
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"