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Subject(s)

• Children—Andes—Social conditions [Browse]

Author

• Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. [Browse]

Series

Rutgers series in childhood studies [More in this series]

Summary note

"Andean communities occupy a special place in the history of anthropology, having given shape to fundamental theories of kinship, peasant economics, indigenous medical systems, ritual life and others. Yet children have been shortchanged in research and theory-building. This book, based on detailed ethnographies of six towns in the province of Yauyos, restores them to a central position. Contemporary children's studies emphasize children's agency and autonomy, and these take surprising forms under the conditions of the rural Andes. At the same time, the book incorporates and extends current discussions of caregiving and its organization in human societies. Children in the Andes are involved in the care of each other, of adults, of animals, of the environment. The activities, sociality, and subjective states of children of different ages, genders, and social strata are variable in ways that make it impossible to speak of a single Andean childhood. The future they face is also uncertain, as the Peruvian nation stumbles through cycles of incompetent government whose common thread is the neglect of small-scale family farming and the welfare of rural populations"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other title(s)

Andean community through the eyes of children

ISBN

• 9781978840737 (paperback)
• 197884073X (paperback)
• 9781978840744 (hardcover)
• 1978840748 (hardcover)

LCCN

2023054364

OCLC

1415240150

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