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The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement
The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these activities have served throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture for any number of exclusive or inclusive motivations: money, fame, health, spirituality, or social and cultural solidarity. The study of anthropology, as presented in Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement, provides a scope that offers a critical and discerning perspective on the complex calculus involving human biological and cultural variation that produces human movement and performance. Each chapter of this compelling collection resonates with the theme of a tightly woven relationship of biology and culture, of evolutionary implications and contemporary biological and cultural expression.
Not Just Child's Play
Winner of the 2008 Chicago Folklore Prize Felicia R. McMahon breaks new ground in the presentation and analysis of emerging traditions of the “Lost Boys,” a group of parentless youths who fled Sudan under tragic circumstances in the 1990s. With compelling insight, McMahon analyzes the oral traditions of the DiDinga Lost Boys, about whom very little is known. Her vibrant ethnography provides intriguing details about the performances and conversations of the young DiDinga in Syracuse, New York. It also offers important insights to scholars and others who work with refugee groups. The author argues that the playful traditions she describes constitute a strategy by which these young men prou...
The Nature of Play
"Comprehensive and up to date, this tightly edited volume belongs on the desks of researchers and students in developmental psychology, comparative psychology, animal behavior, and evolutionary psychology, and will also be of interest to anthropologists. It is a richly informative text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses."--BOOK JACKET.
Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers
The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. Within the field of anthropology, however, a contrasting and more varied view is emerging. While the phenomenon of children as workers is ephemeral in WEIRD society and in the literature on child development, there is ample cross-cultural and historical evidence of children making vital contributions to the family economy. Children’s “labor” is of great interest to researchers, but widely treated as extra-cultural—an aberration that must be controlled. Work as a central component in children’s lives, development, and identity goes unappreciated. Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers aims to rectify that omission by surveying and synthesizing a robust corpus of material, with particular emphasis on two prominent themes: the processes involved in learning to work and the interaction between ontogeny and children’s roles as workers.
The Anthropology of Childhood
Enriched with findings from anthropological scholarship, this book provides a guide to childhood in different cultures, past and present.
Childhood
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1: Multiple Perspectives on the Evolution of Childhood / Alyssa N. Crittenden and Courtney L. Meehan -- Social and Cognitive Correlates of Childhood and Human Life History -- 2: Development Plus Social Selection in the Emergence of "Emotionally Modern" Humans / Sarah B. Hrdy -- 3: Childhood, Biocultural Reproduction, and Human Lifetime Reproductive Effort / Barry Bogin, Jared Bragg, and Christopher Kuzawa -- Growth and Development: Defining Childhood
Importância da parentalidade para o desenvolvimento infantil
Os primeiros anos de vida são considerados relevantes para o desenvolvimento humano. As experiências vividas desde o nascimento propiciam o florescimento de vários aspectos do desenvolvimento: personalidade, comportamento, fala, linguagem, motor e cognitivo. Dessa forma, pensamos em uma obra que englobasse diversas áreas do conhecimento, como a psicologia, a fonoaudiologia e a psicomotricidade. Nesta interlocução, à luz dos seus estudos e práticas, estas áreas ampliam a discussão sobre a importância da parentalidade nos primeiros anos de vida da criança. Este livro aborda temas que relacionam o desenvolvimento infantil ao envolvimento paterno, à criação com apego, à linguagem e à interação mãe-criança, à(s) brincadeira(s) e aos estilos parentais, à ecopsicologia, ao discurso materno e à cognição. Contamos com a contribuição de 12 autores, atualmente alocados em cinco Estados diferentes do Brasil e um autor na Noruega (Universidade de Oslo).
