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The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a large, mural-like portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Even a casual reading of the literature on childhood will persuade one that learning is a very important topic that commands the attention of tens of thousands of scholars and practitioners. Yet, anthropological research on children has exerted relatively little influence on this community. This book will change that. The book demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children's learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it demonstrates the particular contribution that children's learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Chapters have been contributed in archaeology, primatology, biological and cultural anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology. CONTENTS......Page 6 FIGURES AND CREDITS......Page 8 FOREWORD......Page 10 Part I. UNDERSTANDING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH......Page 14 CHAPTER ONE. PUTTING LEARNING IN CONTEXT......Page 16 CHAPTER TWO. AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING IN SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT......Page 24 CHAPTER THREE. THE CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF CHILDREN’S LEARNING AND SOCIALIZATION: A SHORT HISTORY......Page 48 CHAPTER FOUR. PARENTAL ETHNOTHEORIES OF CHILDREN’S LEARNING......Page 78 Part II. LEARNING AS A SOCIAL PROCESS......Page 96 CHAPTER FIVE. LEARNING THROUGH OBSERVATION IN DAILY LIFE......Page 98 CHAPTER SIX. WORK, PLAY, AND LEARNING......Page 132 CHAPTER SEVEN. THE ROLE OF ADULTS IN CHILDREN’S LEARNING......Page 158 CHAPTER EIGHT. LEARNING FROM OTHER CHILDREN......Page 194 CHAPTER NINE. LEARNING IN SCHOOLS......Page 220 Part III. LEARNING CULTURAL MEANINGS......Page 246 CHAPTER TEN. LEARNING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE......Page 248 CHAPTER ELEVEN. LEARNING MORALITY......Page 274 CHAPTER TWELVE. LEARNING GENDER ROLES......Page 300 Part IV. LEARNING TO MAKE A LIVING......Page 320 CHAPTER THIRTEEN. SKILL LEARNING FOR SURVIVAL IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES......Page 322 CHAPTER FOURTEEN. LEARNING THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 354 CHAPTER FIFTEEN. LEARNING TO HUNT......Page 384 CHAPTER SIXTEEN. LEARNING IN AND FROM THE PAST......Page 410 Part V. LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY......Page 432 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. LEARNING ON THE STREETS: PEER SOCIALIZATION IN ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTS......Page 434 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. CHILDREN’S LEARNING IN NEW SETTINGS......Page 456 INDEX......Page 478 ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS......Page 492 This work offers a large, mural-like portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Even a casual reading of the literature on childhood will persuade one that learning is a very important topic that commands the attention of tens of thousands of scholars and practitioners. Yet, anthropological research on children has exerted relatively little influence on this community. This book will change that. The book demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children's learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it demonstrates the particular contribution that children's learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Chapters have been contributed in archaeology, primatology, biological and cultural anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology

This first major anthropological reference book on childhood learning considers the cultural aspects of learning in childhood from the points of view of psychologists, sociologists, educators, and anthropologists.