Brings together case studies from a wide range of societies with varying social expectations in order to examine how childhood differs from adulthood.
List of illustrations
vii
Notes on contributors
viii
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction
1
(10)
Berry Mayall
Explorations in generational analysis
11
(12)
Leena Alanen
Negotiating autonomy: childhoods in rural Bolivia
23
(14)
Samantha Punch
Dependent, independent and interdependent relations: children as members of the family household in West Berlin
37
(17)
Helga Zeiher
The negotiation of influence: children's experience of parental education practices in Geneva
54
(16)
Cleopatre Montandon
What are schools for? The temporal experience of children's learning in Northern England
70
(16)
Pia Christensen
Allison James
Culture and childhood in pastoralist communities: the example of Outer Mongolia
86
(13)
Helen Penn
Some Sydney children define abuse: implications for agency in childhood
99
(15)
Jan Mason
Jan Falloon
Understanding childhoods: a London study
114
(15)
Berry Mayall
Childhood as a generational condition: children's daily lives in a central Finland town
129
(15)
Leena Alanen
Bibliography
144
(10)
Index
154
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