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• Understanding childhood:a cross-disciplinary approach
• Contents
• Series preface
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Contours of a ‘crisis’
• 3 Crisis in context
• 4 Parenting in late modernity
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Reading A Can these be children?
• Reading B Making sameness: mothering, commerce and the culture of children’s birthday parties
• Reading C Buy a better baby
• Chapter 2
• 1 Introduction
• 2 How do historians study childhood?
• 3 Influential historians of childhood
• 4 Major themes in European constructions of childhood
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Reading A Child witches in seventeenth century Germany
• Reading B The kiddy and the pork chop: childhood 1950-1973
• Chapter 3
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The emergence of child development
• 3 A new science of child study
• 4 Stages of development
• 5 Development in context
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Reading A A biographical sketch of an infant
• Reading B Young children’s understanding of other people
• Untitled
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The emergence of anthropology: from the armchair to the field
• 3 Margaret Mead and childhood
• 4 Anthropolgy within ‘the new social studies of childhood’
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Reading A Dealing with the dark side in the ethnography of childhood: child punishment in Tonga
• Reading B Children’s views of death
• Reading C The spiritual lives of Beng infants
• Chapter 5
• Untitled
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Making the familiar strange
• 3 Development and socialisation
• 4 The ‘new social studies of childhood’
• Untitled
• 5 After the new paradigm
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Reading A Exploited or empowered?
• Reading B The social production of children as subjects
• Chapter 6
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Types of data
• 3 Quantative data
• 4 Qualitative data
• 5 The choice between using quantitative and qualitative data
• 6 Evaluative versus documentary orientations
• 7 Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements
• Index