Discuss the importance of early anthropologists addressing childhood/child development, including Boas, Mead, and Malinowski. What contributions did they make to the anthropology of the childhood and the family? In what ways do you see their influence in more contemporary anthropological studies of childhood? Conversely, how have more recent/contemporary studies of childhood diverged from theories and/or approaches of these earlier scholars?
MUST USE THESE SOURCES FROM CLASS
LeVine, Robert A. and Rebecca S. New. 2008. Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader. Malden, MA; Blackwell.
Montgomery, Heather. 2009. An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s Lives. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Gottlieb, Alma. 2004. The Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press.
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