The anthropology of childhood
Subtitle: cherubs, chattel, changelings
By: David F. Lancy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780521887731
Subjects: Children -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Where do children come from?; title: To make a child; title: A child's worth; title: It takes a village; title: Making sense; title: Marbles and morals; title: His first goat; title: Living in limbo; title: How schools can raise property values; title: Suffer the children.