Child Survival: Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and Maltreatment of Children

by Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Book Overview

of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula- tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house- hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy and childhood, definitions of personhood, and beliefs about the soul and its immortality. MOTHER LOVE AND CHILD DEATH Of all the many factors that endanger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155608028X
• ISBN13: 9781556080289
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.6"