Reading Assignments |
Textbooks are available through the USU bookstore, and, alternatively, through Amazon.com as a fundraiser for the USU Museum of Anthropology (Old Main 252). Ordering through Amazon.com often nets students a better price on both new and used texts, and, if the link is made through the museum’s website, your books will be cheaper AND the Museum benefits as well, receiving a percentage of the price of everything purchased. http://www.usu.edu/anthro/museum/catalog/amafundmus.html To facilitate buying books through Amazon.com, museum personnel have created links for all SSWA courses. Simply go to the website listed above, look up your course, click on the textbook(s) featured for your class, place them in your Amazon.com shopping cart, make your purchase, and voila—your textbooks are shipped to you and the museum automatically receives a commission on the sale. Shipping is free for orders of $25 or more. Keep in mind, as well, that any time you plan to make a purchase from Amazon.com, if you go to their website via a Museum of Anthropology link (by clicking, for example, on any featured book, whether or not you plan to buy it), the museum will then receive a small commission on everything you buy—not just books related to your courses. It’s a nice way for the museum to fund outreach events here at USU, programs for Cache Valley families, and even undergraduate internships in the museum. Lancy, David F. (1996) Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children’s Development. New York: Guilford. (Book)Lancy, David F. (2008) The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Book)Lancy, David F. and Grove, M. Annette (2003-7) The Anthropology of Childhood: Annotated Bibliography. (CD-ROM—this will be handed out in class). |
In addition to these two texts, there are a number of articles assigned which you will find, in pdf format, under the “Additional Readings” link on our Blackboard course page.Daly, Martin and Wilson, Margo (1984) A sociobiological analysis of human infanticide. In Gerald Hausfater & Sarah B. Hrdy (Eds.) Infanticide: Comparative and evolutionary perspectives (pp 487-502) New York: Aldine Lancy, D. F. (2007) Accounting for variability in mother-child play. American Anthropologist, 109(2): 273-284. Raitt, Margaret & Lancy, David F. (1988) Rhinestone Cowgirl: The Education of a Rodeo Queen. Play and Culture, 1: 267-281. Polak, Barbara (2003) Little peasants: On the importance of reliability in child labour. In D’Almeida-Topor, Hèléne, Monique Lakroum and Gerd Spittler (Eds.) Le travail en Afrique noire: Représentations et pratiques à l’époque contermporaine. (pp. 125-136). Paris: Karthala. Bock, John & Johnson, Sara E. (2004) Play and Subsistence Ecology
among the Okavango Delta Peoples of Botswana. Human Nature, 15(1):
63-82. Lancy, David F., Grove, M. Annette (2006) “Baby-parading:” Child
care or showing off? Paper presented at Symposium “Defining Childhood:
Cross-cultural Perspectives,” Annual Meeting Society for Anthropological
Sciences, Savannah, GA., February. Schlegel, Alice (1991) Status, Property, and the Value on Virginity. American Ethnologist, 18(4): 719-734. Hardenberg, Roland 2006. Hut of the young girls: Transition from childhood to adolescence in a middle Indian tribal society. in Deepak K. Behera (ed.), Childhoods in South Asia. Pp. 65-81, Singapore: Pearson Education Leavitt, Stephen C. (1998) The Bikhet Mystique: Masculine identity and patterns of rebellion among Bumbita adolescent males. In Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies. Herdt, Gilbert & Leavitt, Stephen C. (Eds.) Pp. 173-194. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. |
Introduction | Textbooks
and Additional Readings | Writing Assignments |