From child to adult
Subtitle: studies in the anthropology of education.
Contributors: American Museum of Natural History.
Series: American Museum sourcebooks in anthropology,; Q12
Publisher: Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Educational anthropology.
Table of contents: title: Our educational emphasis in primitive perspective, by M. Mead.; title: Social and psychological aspects of education in Taleland, by M. Fortes.; title: Education in Tikopia, by R. Firth.; title: Some aspects of indigenous education among the Chaga, by O. Raum.; title: Instruction and affect in Hopi cultural continuity, by D. Eggan.; title: A New Guinea childhood: from weaning till the eighth year in Wogeo, by I. Hogbin. The structure of the socialization process in Papago Indian society, by T. R. Williams.; title: Education for citizenship among the Nupe, by S. F. Nadel.; title: The social cycle and initiation among the Mende, by K. Little.; title: The aims and methods of socialization in Silwa, by H. Ammar.; title: Education and cultural dynamics: Dahomey and the New World, by M. J. Herskovits.; title: Education in Africa: its pattern and role in social change, by M. Read.; title: Culture and education in the midwestern highlands of Guatemala, by R. Redfield.; title: Education in a new nation: the village school in Upper Burma, by M. Nash.; title: Education as an interface institution in rural Mexico and the American inner city, by R. and E. Hunt.; title: Bibliography (p. [327]-344)