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survey, 1800 to the present’ in A.James & A.Prout (eds) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood, London, New York, The Falmer Press, 1990. • S. Howell, ‘From child to human: Chewong concepts of self’, in J.Jahoda & I.M. Lewis (eds), Acquiring Culture, London, Croom Helm 1988. • W. Kessen, ‘The child and other cultural inventions’ in F.S. Kessel & A.W. Siegel (eds) The Child and Other Cultural Inventions, Praeger Publishers, 1983. • David F. Lancy, The Anthropology of Childhood Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings, Cambridge University Press 2008 • Heather Montgomery, An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children's Lives, Wiley‐Blackwell, 2008. LECTURE 3: GENDER AND PERSONHOOD Looks at different peoples’ ideas of 'the person', 'the self', ‘gender’ etc. and also how they come to hold those particular ideas. • Allison James, Chris Jenks and Alan Prout, Theorizing Childhood, Polity Press 1998. See Chapters 8 and 10. • Elinor Ochs & Bambi B. Schieffelin, ‘Language acquisition and socialization: three developmental stories and their implications’ in R.A.Shweder & R.A. LeVine (eds) Culture Theory. Essays on mind, self and emotion, Cambridge University Press, 1984. • Alan Prout and Allison James, ‘A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood? Provenance, prmise and problems’ in A.James & A.Prout (eds) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood, London, New York, The Falmer Press, 1990. • F.J. Porter Poole, ‘Coming into social being: cultural images of infants in Bimin‐Kuskusmin folk psychology’, in G.M. White & J. Kirkpatrick (eds) Person, Self and Experience, University of California Press, 1985. • Bambi B. Schieffelin, ‘Teasing and shaming in Kaluli children’s interactions’ in Bambi B. Schieffelin & Elinor Ochs (eds.) Language Socialization Across Cultures, Cambridge University Press, 1986. • Christina Toren The stuff of imagination: what we can learn from Fijian children’s ideas about their lives as adults. Social Analysis Volume 55, Issue 1, 23–47 2011 LECTURE 4: THE CHILD IN KINSHIP The study of kinship is of central importance to anthropology as a discipline. This lecture looks at what we can learn about kinship and sociality by exploring ideas about the child’s place in relations with others. • Alma Gottlieb, The Afterlife is Where We Come From. The culture of infancy in west Africa.: Chicago University Press. 2004 • Peter Gow, ‘The perverse child: desire in a native Amazonian subsistence economy’, Man, (N.S.) 24, 299‐314, 1989. • Peter Gow. ‘Helpless. The Affective Preconditions of Piro Social Life’, in Joanna Overing and Alan Passes (eds) The Anthropology of Love and Hate: the Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia, London, Routledge. 2000. • Christina Toren, ‘Compassion for one another: constituting kinship as intentionality in Fiji’, 1996 Malinowski Lecture, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.) 5, 265‐ 280 September, 1999. 28
• Viegas, Susana de Matos. “Eating with Your Favourite Mother: Time and Sociality in a South Amerindian Community (South of Bahia/Brazil).” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1: 21–37, 2003. LECTURE 5: THE CHILD IN RITUAL We may be aware that our own behaviour has a ritualised dimension and even that ritual has a powerful hold on ourselves as well as others, but where is the power of ritual located? • Meyer Fortes, ‘Social and psychological aspects of education in Taleland’ in Time and Social Structure and other essays, London: Athlone, 1970. • Gilbert Herdt, ‘Sambia nosebleeding rites and male proximity to women’ in J Stigler et al (eds) Cultural Psychology: Essays on comparative human development, Cambridge: CUP 1990. • Borut Telban, Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmology, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. • Christina Toren, ‘Sign into symbol, symbol as sign: cognitive aspects of a social process’ in Mind, Materiality and History. Explorations in Fijian Ethnography, London, Routledge, 1999. • Christina Toren, ‘The Effectiveness of Ritual.’ In The Anthropology of Christianity. Fenella Cannell, ed. Pp. 185–210. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2006 LECTURE 6: FIELDWORK WITH CHILDREN This lecture is a personal look at the pros and cons of doing fieldwork with children, how it differs (or not) from working with adults, and the degree to which the researcher has to modify his or her research methods. • Gillian Evans, Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain, Palgrave Macmillan 2006. • Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning, Cambridge University Press, 1991. • Nabobo‐Baba, Unaisi. Knowing and Learning. An Indigenous Fijian Approach. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. 2006. • Christina Toren, ‘Making history: the significance of childhood cognition for a comparative anthropology of mind’, Man (NS) 28:461‐478, 1993. • Christina Toren, ‘Intersubjectivity as epistemology’ in What is Happening to Epistemology? A special issue edited by Christina Toren and João de Pina‐Cabral. Social Analysis. Volume 53, Issue 2, 2009. 29
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