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Author Chapin, Bambi L., author.

Title Childhood in a Sri Lankan village : shaping hierarchy and desire / Bambi L. Chapin
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 211 pages)
Series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Note on translation and transliteration -- Introduction -- Sri Lanka: setting the ethnographic context -- Socializing desire: demanding toddlers and self-restrained children -- Shaping attachments: learning hierarchy at home -- Making sense of envy: desires and relationships in conflict -- Engaging with hierarchy outside the Home: education and efforts at change -- Culturing people -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary "Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village offers an intimate look at how these children, raised on the tenets of Buddhism, are trained to set aside selfish desires for the good of their families and the community. Chapin reveals how this cultural conditioning is carried out through small everyday practices, including eating and sleeping arrangements, yet she explores how the village's attitudes and customs continue to change with each new generation. Combining penetrating psychological insights with a rigorous observation of larger social structures, Chapin enables us to see the world through the eyes of Sri Lankan children searching for a place within their families and communities. Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village offers a fresh, global perspective on child development and the transmission of culture."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Parenting -- Sri Lanka
Child psychology -- Sri Lanka
Child development -- Sri Lanka
Children -- Family relationships -- Sri Lanka
Children -- Sri Lanka -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Child development
Child psychology
Children -- Family relationships
Children -- Social conditions
Manners and customs
Parenting
Kind
Sozialisation
Landbevölkerung
SUBJECT Sri Lanka -- Social life and customs
Subject Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813561677
0813561671