Acquiring Culture: Cross Cultural Studies in Child Development

by Ioan M. Lewis and Gustav Jahoda

Book Overview

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. Thus both disciplines had largely ignored a crucial problem area: the way in which children from birth onwards learn to become...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138849456
• ISBN13: 9781138849457
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"