Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village : Shaping Hierarchy and Desire /
"Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village offers an intimate look at how these children, raised on the tenets of Buddhism, are trained to set aside selfish desires for the good of their families and the community. Chapin reveals how this cultural conditioning is carried out through small everyday prac...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on translation and transliteration
- Introduction
- Sri Lanka: setting the ethnographic context
- Socializing desire: demanding toddlers and self-restrained children
- Shaping attachments: learning hierarchy at home
- Making sense of envy: desires and relationships in conflict
- Engaging with hierarchy outside the Home: education and efforts at change
- Culturing people
- Notes
- References
- Index.