| Description |
xvi, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Encyclopedias of the human experience |
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Encyclopedias of the human experience.
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| Contents |
Abortion -- Achievement -- Adolescence -- Adoption -- Adult roles, training for -- Aggression -- Birth -- Birth order -- Birth spacing -- Canalization -- Caretakers, secondary -- Child mortality -- Child nurses -- Childhood traits, valued -- Childlessness -- Children, desire for -- Children, number of -- Children's activities -- Chores -- Cleanliness -- Clothing -- Coaction -- Cognitive development -- Competition and cooperation -- Conception, beliefs about -- Consistency in parenting -- Continuity between childhood and adulthood -- Couvade -- Crying -- Daily routine -- Development, social -- Development theories, native -- Developmental stages -- Developmental stages, transitions across -- Dominance -- Eating -- Emotional expression -- Evolution of human development -- Fathers -- Friendship -- Grandparents -- Household composition -- Illegitimacy -- Illness -- Infancy -- Infant-caretaker closeness -- Infanticide -- Infants, affectionate treatment of -- Infants, beliefs about -- Infants, carrying devices for -- Infants, Indulgence of -- Infants, treatment of newborn -- Initiation rites -- Integration into adult life -- Interpersonal environment -- Language acquisition -- Learning -- Modesty -- Moral development -- Mothers, constraints upon -- Mothers, new -- Naming -- Nursing -- Nurturance training -- Obedience -- Parenting, styles of -- Parents, children's treatment of -- Parents' preference for boy or girl -- Peers -- Physical development -- Play -- Pregnancy -- Protection of children from danger -- Resiliency -- Respect -- Responsibility -- Schooling -- Segregation of children from parents -- Segregation of girls and boys -- Self-esteem -- Self-reliance and autonomy -- Seniority -- Sex differences -- Sex (gender) identity -- Sex taboo, postpartum -- Sexual behavior -- Sharing -- Sibling rivalry -- Siblings -- Sleeping -- Sociability -- Socialization, agents of -- Socialization, techniques of -- Societies -- Supernatural influences -- Supplementary food -- Swaddling -- Tantrums -- Toilet training -- Walking -- Weaning |
| Summary |
A global comparison of childhood in different cultures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-364) and indexes |
| Subject |
Child development -- Cross-cultural studies -- Encyclopedias.
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Child rearing -- Cross-cultural studies -- Encyclopedias.
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Socialization -- Cross-cultural studies -- Encyclopedias.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| LC no. |
95044079 |
| ISBN |
0874367670 (acid-free paper) |
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