The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings
2nd Edition
Reviews
"David Lancy’s The Anthropology of Childhood was essential the moment it appeared; the second edition is even better! He has digested the survey material even more, used updated materials, and held back less on his criticism of contemporary Euro-American childrearing."
Susan D. Blum, University of Notre Dame
"The most comprehensive, and perhaps only, review of the human child in terms of evolutionary biology and sociocultural anthropology. Based on the best of theory and field ethnography, it is essential for any study of human development and human nature."
Barry Bogin, Loughborough University
"The scholarship in this book is incredibly sound and thorough in breadth and scope."
Rebecca Zarger, University of South Florida
"A valuable forum to better understand childhood as a rapidly growing sub-field of anthropology."
Akira Takada, Kyoto University
"This revised version of the volume is very welcome, providing students, teachers and generalists who are interested in the subject with a broad overview of the anthropology of childhood, supported by a comprehensive and helpfully interdisciplinary bibliography."
Sally Crawford FSA, The University of Oxford
"If I were to assign just one book as required reading for students of child psychology, this would be it. It opens our all-too-parochial eyes to childhood's possibilities."
Peter Gray, Boston College