Product Description: Until the 70s and 80s anthropologists studying different cultures had mainly confined themselves to the behaviour and idea systems of adults. Psychologists, on the other hand, working mainly in Europe and America, had studied child development in their own settings and simply assumed the universality of their findings...read more

Product Description: "The greatest strength of the volume lies in the diverse mix of perspectives represented by the authors. These come from a range of disciplines, including anthropology and sociology. Many have practical experience of the issues discussed through backgrounds in community and NGO work, and through roles including as policy officers and development consultants...read more

Product Description: Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development was the first volume to analyze minority child development by comparing minority children to children in their ancestral countries, rather than to children in the host culture. It was a ground-breaking volume that not only offered an historical reconstruction of the cross-cultural roots of minority child development, but a new cultural-historical approach to developmental psychology as well...read more

Product Description: International contributors drawing on case studies from around the world consider how children can actively participate in decision-making.

Product Description: This volume describes children's development in their cultural contexts. It stresses the fact that the development of children in diverse cultures follows different paths, depending on specific developmental opportunities provided by their cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Infancy and Culture: An International Review and Source Book provides a cross-indexed, annotated guide to social and behavioral studies of infants of color. Derived from five major data bases of published scientific literature, this volume was designed to elevate the scientific study of infants of color to a level reflecting their majority status in the world's population...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume describes children's development in their cultural contexts. It stresses the fact that the development of children in diverse cultures follows different paths, depending on specific developmental opportunities provided by their cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: . . . provides rich and interesting detail about the conditions, values, and experiences of children and those who rear them - Contemporary Psychology (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The study of child development has emerged in the context of Western society, with the practical needs and social norms of this culture dominating the field. Consequently, the development of children within Western culture has come to be considered the norm for all children, regardless of how different their economic and cultural environments might be...read more