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Acquiring Culture (Psychology Revivals) - Cross Cultural Studies in Child Development (Hardcover)
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Acquiring Culture (Psychology Revivals) - Cross Cultural Studies in Child Development (Hardcover)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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Until the 70s and 80s anthropologists studying different cultures
had mainly confined themselves to the behaviour and idea systems of
adults. Psychologists, on the other hand, working mainly in Europe
and America, had studied child development in their own settings
and simply assumed the universality of their findings. Thus both
disciplines had largely ignored a crucial problem area: the way in
which children from birth onwards learn to become competent members
of their culture. This process, which has been called 'the
quintessential human adaptation', constitutes the theme of this
volume, originally published in 1988. It derives from a workshop
held at the London School of Economics which brought together
fieldworkers who in their studies had paid more than usual
attention to children in their cultures. Their experience and foci
of interest were varied but this very diversity serves to
illuminate different facets of the acquisition of culture by
children, ranging in age from pre-verbal infants to adolescents.
Evolutionarily primed for culture-learning, children are responsive
to a rich web of influences from subtle and indirect as in their
music and dance to direct teaching in the family guided by
culture-specific ideas about child psychology. Some of the salient
things they learn relate to gender, status and power, critical for
the functioning of all societies. The introductory essay provides
the necessary historical background of the development of child
study in both anthropology and psychology and outlined how future
research in the ethnography of childhood should proceed. The book
concludes with an annotated bibliography providing a guide to the
literature from 1970 onwards.
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