An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children's Lives

In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty years. She offers a comprehensive overview of childhood from an anthropological perspective, and draws upon a wide range of examples and evidence from different geographical areas and belief systems. She aims to synthesize existing literature on the anthropology of childhood, while providing a fresh perspective and engaging students with illustrative ethnographies to illuminate key topics and themes.