Care and Agency: The Andean Community Through the Eyes of Children

by Jeanine Anderson and Jessaca B. Leinaweaver

Andean communities occupy a special place in the history of anthropology, having given shape to fundamental theories of kinship, peasant economics, Indigenous medical systems, ritual life and others. Yet children have been shortchanged in research and theory building. Care and Agency, based on detailed ethnographies of six towns in the province of Yauyos, restores children to a central research position. Contemporary children's studies emphasize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197884073X
• ISBN13: 9781978840737
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher