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The child: an encyclopedic companion
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
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"Imagining each other" essays. How a green race car helped Randy cope with asthma
Learning to weave in a Maya community
Formality and fun in kinship relations among the Gusii
Muslim children with autism learn to pray
Perfecting gender in a New England boarding school
Marks make the man in Kenya
Aía ke ola i nā kūpuna: family-based care in native Hawaiian culture
Launching a reproductive career in Kenya
Empowering girls in Sierra Leone: initiation into the Bondo society
Growing up hearing in a deaf family
Literacy without schooling among the Vai of Liberia
Trial by fire: emotional socialization among Canadian Inuit
The parenting style of a Turkish reformer
Memories of childhood on an Israeli kibbutz
A far-flung fairy tale: beauty and the beast
Learning to like chili peppers
Treating Hmong children in America: two case studies
Educated at home in the United States
Summer camp for diabetic children: a stigma-free zone
Our language: a friendship that transcended linguistic and cultural borders
The luminous books of childhood
Counting on the body: arithmetic learning in Oksapmin culture
A Hindu Brahman boy is born again
The color brown
Italian children and the mysterious La Befana
Learning to fictionalize in the Black Belt of Alabama
Some prodigious pretenders
Girls as adversarial virtuosos
Using rap to re-create a Southern heritage
An African American grandmother combats racial hatred
Early childhood education in Japan
The school of the republic: Muslim girls' dress and identities in French public schools
Parents as deities in Hindu family life
To know shame is to be near courage: moral socialization in Taipei
Children as family caregivers in Mexico
Dream interpretation in the Amazon
On infants sleeping alone
The mathematical life of Brazilian street children
Tourette syndrome in Indian Ayurvedic medical practice
A refugee's childhood in the West Bank
Work before play for Yucatec Maya children.
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9780226475394
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