1st Edition

Acquiring Culture Cross Cultural Studies in Child Development

Edited By Gustav Jahoda, Ioan Lewis Copyright 1988
368 Pages
by Psychology Press

368 Pages
by Psychology Press

368 Pages
by Psychology Press

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... Read more

Preface.  Gustav Jahoda and I.M. Lewis Introduction: Child Development in Psychology and Anthropology  Part 1: Non-verbal Processes in the Acquisition of Culture  1. Colwyn Trevarthen Universal Co-operative Motives: How Infants Begin to Know the Language and Culture of their Parents  2. John Blacking Dance and Music in Venda Children’s Cognitive Development 1956–8  3. Angela Hobart The Shadow Play and Operetta as Mediums of Education in Bali  Part 2: Cognitive Development and Indigenous Psychology  4. Signe Howell From Child to Human: Chewong Concepts of Self  5. Joanna Overing Personal Autonomy and the Domestication of the Self in Piaroa Society  6. Ida Nicolaisen Concepts and Learning Among the Punan Bah of Sarawak  Part 3: Cognitive Development, Gender and Hierarchy  7. Christina Toren Children’s Perceptions of Gender and Hierarchy in Fiji  8. Katherine Platt Cognitive Development and Sex Roles on the Kerkennah Islands of Tunisia  9. Tarama Dragadze Sex Roles and State Roles in Soviet Georgia: Two Styles of Infant Socialisation.  Christina Toren Annotated Bibliography: Recent Studies of Ethnography of Childhood.  Index

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Gustav Jahoda, Ioan Lewis