ISBN:
0813561671
,
9780813561677
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (pages cm)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Rutgers series in childhood studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village : Shaping Hierarchy and Desire
DDC:
305.23095493
Keywords:
Children Family relationships
;
Children Social conditions
;
Parenting
;
Child development
;
Child psychology
;
Sri Lanka Social life and customs
Abstract:
Like toddlers all over the world, Sri Lankan children go through a period that in the U.S. is referred to as the "terrible twos." Yet once they reach elementary school age, they appear uncannily passive, compliant, and undemanding compared to their Western counterparts. Clearly, these children have undergone some process of socialization, but what?Over ten years ago, anthropologist Bambi Chapin traveled to a rural Sri Lankan village to begin answering this question, getting to know the toddlers in the village, then returning to track their development over the course of the following decade. C
Description / Table of Contents:
""Series Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Translation and Transliteration""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Sri Lanka: Setting the Ethnographic Context""; ""3. Socializing Desire: Demanding Toddlers and Self-Restrained Children""; ""4. Shaping Attachments: Learning Hierarchy at Home""; ""5. Making Sense of Envy: Desires and Relationships in Conflict""; ""6. Engaging with Hierarchy outside the Home: Education and Efforts at Change""; ""7. Culturing People""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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