Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village - Shaping Hierarchy and Desire

Informationen zum Autor BAMBI L. CHAPIN is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.    Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Bambi L Chapin, Bambi L. Chapin
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9780813561653
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6165-3
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories