Small Wars - The Cultural Politics of Childhood

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List of contents

CONTRIBUTORS:
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
Philippe Bourgois
John A. Brett
Caroline B. Brettell
Donna M. Goldstein
Matthew C. Gutmann
Michael Harris
Daniel Hoffman
Jill E. Korbin
J. S. La Fontaine
Leonard B. Lerer
Lynn M. Morgan
Susan Niermeyer
Maria B. Olujic
Mary Picone
Elizabeth F. S. Roberts
Carolyn Sargent
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Meira Weiss
Linda M. Whiteford

About the author

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her many publications include two award-winning books published by California, Death Without Weeping (1992), and Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics (1979). Carolyn Sargent, author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power (California, 1989) and coeditor with Robbie Davis-Floyd of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge (California, 1997), is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies at Southern Methodist University.

Summary

Contains a series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Sargent Scheper-Hughes, Scheper-Hughes/Sargent
• Assisted by: Carolyn Fishel Sargent (Editor), Carol Fishel Sargent (Editor), Carolyn F. Sargent (Editor), Carolyn Fishel Sargent (Editor), Sargent Carolyn F. (Editor), Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Editor), Scheper-Hughes Nancy (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.1999
• EAN: 9780520209183
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20918-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents