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The Child

The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies in a remarkable one-volume reference. Bringing together contemporary research on children and childhood from pediatrics, child psychology, childhood studies, education, sociology, history, law, anthropology, and other related areas, The Child contains more than 500 articles—all written by experts in their fields and overseen by a panel of distinguished editors led by anthropologist Richard A. Shweder. Each entry provides a concise and accessible synopsis of the topic at hand. For example, the entry “Adoption” begins with a general definition, followed by a detailed look at adoption in different cultures and at different times, a summary of the associated mental and developmental issues that can arise, and an overview of applicable legal and public policy. While presenting certain universal facts about children’s development from birth through adolescence, the entries also address the many worlds of childhood both within the United States and around the globe. They consider the ways that in which race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and cultural traditions of child rearing can affect children’s experiences of physical and mental health, education, and family. Alongside the topical entries, The Child includes more than forty “Imagining Each Other” essays, which focus on the particular experiences of children in different cultures. In “Work before Play for Yucatec Maya Children,” for example, readers learn of the work responsibilities of some modern-day Mexican children, while in “A Hindu Brahman Boy Is Born Again,” they witness a coming-of-age ritual in contemporary India. Compiled by some of the most distinguished child development researchers in the world, The Child will broaden the current scope of knowledge on children and childhood. It is an unparalleled resource for parents, social workers, researchers, educators, and others who work with children.

Tales and Romances: Dead man's rock.- v. 2. The astonishing history of Troy town.- v. 3. Noughts and crosses.- v. 4. The splendid spur.- v. 5. The delectable duchy.- v. 6. The Westcote's. Ia. Tom Tiddler's ground.- v. 7. The blue pavilions.- v. 8. The ship of stars.- v. 9. Wandering heath.- v. 10. The adventures of Harry Reval.- v. 11. Hetty Wesley.- v. 12. Old fires and profitable ghosts.- v. 13. Fort Amity.- v. 14. I saw three ships and Mortallone.- v. 15. Sir John Constantine.- v. 16. Brother Copas.- v. 17. The laird's luck and other fireside tales.- v. 18. Shining ferry.- v. 19. The mayor of Troy.- v. 20. Major Vigoreux.- v. 21. True Tilda.- v. 22. The white wolf and other fireside tales.- v. 23. Poison Island.- v. 24. Lady Good-for-Nothing.- v. 25 Hocken and Huncken.- v. 26. News from the duchy.- v. 27. Nicky-Nan, reservist.- v. 28. Foe Farrell.- v. 29. Two sides of a face.- v. 30. Merry Garden and other stories

Hidden rituals and public performances

Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions by analysing the recreation of religious traditions, myths, and songs in public and private performances. Their work is based on long term fieldwork undertaken during the 1990s and 2000s in three different places, the Northern Ob region in North West Siberia and in the Komi and Udmurt Republics. It sheds light on how different traditions are favoured and transformed in multicultural Russia today. Siikala and Ulyashev examine rituals, songs, and festivals that emphasize specificity and create feelings of belonging between members of families, kin groups, villages, ethnic groups, and nations, and interpret them from a perspective of area, state, and cultural policies. A closer look at post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts shows that opportunities to perform ethnic culture vary significantly among Russian minorities with different histories and administrative organisation. Within this variation the dialogue between local and administrative needs is decisive.