Bambi L Chapin

Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village

Shaping Hierarchy and Desire

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Produktbeschreibung

Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village starts with a mystery: why do Sri Lankan children, normally rambunctious and demanding as toddlers, become uncannily compliant as they grow older? To answer this question, anthropologist Bambi Chapin spent over a decade tracking the development of children in a rural Sri Lankan village. What she learned gives us a fresh perspective on the ways children think and on how cultural beliefs are passed down through the generations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780813561653
• ISBN-10: 0813561655
• Artikelnr.: 40053667

Autorenporträt

BAMBI L. CHAPIN is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.   

Inhaltsangabe

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: Desire and Relationships in Conflict
6. Engaging with Hierarchy outside the Home: Education and Efforts at
Change
7. Culturing People
Notes
References
Index