[PDF] Wolf Child And Human Child Being A Narrative Interpretation Of The Life History Of Kamala eBook

Author : Adriana S. Benzaquén
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 0773576118

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Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited. Adriana Benzaqu n explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate Western scientists and shows how the knowledge they have generated in different disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, linguistics, and sociology, has contributed to the shaping and reshaping of the modern understanding of "the child" and affected the social and institutional practices directed at all children in schools, welfare, mental health, and the law.

Author : Sam George
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526129051

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This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.

Author : Julia V. Douthwaite
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2002-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226160564

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This study looks at the lives of the most famous "wild children" of eighteenth-century Europe, showing how they open a window onto European ideas about the potential and perfectibility of mankind. Julia V. Douthwaite recounts reports of feral children such as the wild girl of Champagne (captured in 1731 and baptized as Marie-Angélique Leblanc), offering a fascinating glimpse into beliefs about the difference between man and beast and the means once used to civilize the uncivilized. A variety of educational experiments failed to tame these feral children by the standards of the day. After telling their stories, Douthwaite turns to literature that reflects on similar experiments to perfect human subjects. Her examples range from utopian schemes for progressive childrearing to philosophical tales of animated statues, from revolutionary theories of regenerated men to Gothic tales of scientists run amok. Encompassing thinkers such as Rousseau, Sade, Defoe, and Mary Shelley, Douthwaite shows how the Enlightenment conceived of mankind as an infinitely malleable entity, first with optimism, then with apprehension. Exposing the darker side of eighteenth-century thought, she demonstrates how advances in science gave rise to troubling ethical concerns, as parents, scientists, and politicians tried to perfect mankind with disastrous results.

Author : Angela N. H. Creager
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781580461207

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An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

Author : Daniel Thomas Cook
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 4001 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529721954

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the "child" over the last four decades This four-volume encyclopedia covers a wide range of themes and topics, including: Social Constructions of Childhood Children’s Rights Politics/Representations/Geographies Child-specific Research Methods Histories of Childhood/Transnational Childhoods Sociology/Anthropology of Childhood Theories and Theorists Key Concepts This interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be of interest to students and researchers in: Childhood Studies Sociology/Anthropology Psychology/Education Social Welfare Cultural Studies/Gender Studies/Disabilty Studies