David Lancy Copyright (c) 2012 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy Recent documents in David Lancy en-us Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:40:37 PST 3600 A Developmental Ecology of Kpelle Children’s Play http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/116 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/116 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:25 PST David F. Lancy Culture, Social Class and Emergent Literacy http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/115 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/115 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:24 PST David F. Lancy Get the Word Out! Informing Undergraduates of Research Opportunities http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/114 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/114 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:22 PST David F. Lancy et al. The Effects of a CD-ROM Storybook Program on Head Start Children's Emergent Literacy http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/113 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/113 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:20 PST David F. Lancy et al. The Anthropology of Children http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/112 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/112 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:19 PST David F. Lancy “Babies Aren’t Persons”: A Survey of Delayed Personhood http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/111 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/111 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:18 PST To better understand attachment from a cross-cultural and historical perspective, I have amassed over 200 cases from the ethnographic and archaeological records that reveal cultural models (D'Andrade and Strauss 1992) of infancy. The 200 cases represent all areas of the world, historical epochs from the Mesolithic to the present and all types of subsistence patterns (Appendix 1). The approach is inductive where cases with similar models of infancy are clustered into archetypes. My principal finding from this analysis is that, in the broadest overview, infants are, effectively, placed on probation and not immediately integrated into the society. Attachment failure is not seen as a potential problem but, rather, premature attachment to an infant whose existence may be fleeting is to be guarded against. Most societies view infants and even children as not-yet-persons. Infants are born into a state of liminality or incompleteness. Among the Wari, a baby is compared to unripe fruit as it is "still being made"; (Conklin and Morgan 1996: 672) and the Nankani reserve judgment on the infant's humanity until they can be certain it is not a spirit or bush child (Denham et al 2010: 608). My presentation of results will first identify the main factors that give rise to delaying personhood and, second, to the cultural models which justify and guide the transformation of babies into persons. Variability in the way this non-personhood is characterized and in the steps that must occur to complete the process of constructing a person is great but not infinite. Hence, in the second half of the chapter, I will identify and discuss several archetypal cultural models of infancy.

]]> David F. Lancy Cross‐cultural Perspectives on Agency Across the Lifespan: Infancy http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/110 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/110 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:17 PST David F. Lancy et al. Teaching With Technology http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/109 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/109 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:16 PST David F. Lancy Re-Staging Childhood http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/108 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/108 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:14 PST David F. Lancy Marbles and Machiavelli: The Role of Game Play in Children’s Social Development http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/107 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/107 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:13 PST David F. Lancy et al. The Elastic Nature of Childhood http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/106 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/106 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:11 PST David F. Lancy What Value Do Parents from Differing Societies Attach to Play? http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/105 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/105 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:10 PST David F. Lancy “First You Must Master Pain:” The Nature and Purpose of Apprenticeship http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/104 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/104 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:09 PST The goal of this study is to distill from a large body of literature on children learning crafts, such as pottery and weaving, the characteristics of apprenticeship as a distinct phenomenon. Currently apprenticeship is considered indistinguishable from other, more informal, means of skill transmission. From the literature survey, eleven attributes are identified as belonging to the archetypal apprenticeship. The analysis then advances to consider the genesis or raison d’etre for the apprenticeship. The argument is advanced that the apprenticeship is designed to simultaneously train novices in specific craft or trade skills while socializing them to join the social and cultural elite represented by master craftsmen. The article concludes by considering the role of apprenticeship in the evolution of schooling.

]]> David F. Lancy EDUtainment in Anthropology http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/103 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/103 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:08 PST David F. Lancy Taking the Pain Out of Testing http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/102 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/102 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:06 PST David F. Lancy The Long and Short of it: Social Construction of Childhood http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/101 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/101 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:05 PST David F. Lancy The NCUR/Lancy Summer Research Fellowships http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/100 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/100 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:04 PST David F. Lancy Monkey See, Monkey Do: Evidence of a Cultural Acquisition Device http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/99 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/99 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:02 PST David F. Lancy Cultural Transmission and the Paradox of Children’s Agency http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/98 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/98 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:01 PST David F. Lancy “Getting Noticed”: Middle Childhood inCross-Cultural Perspective http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/97 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/97 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:17:00 PST Although rarely named, the majority of societies in the ethnographic record demarcate a period between early childhood and adolescence. Prominent signs of demarcation are: for the first time, pronounced gender separation in fact and in role definition; increased freedom of movement for boys while girls may be bound more tightly to their mothers; and heightened expectations for socially responsible behavior. But, above all, middle childhood is about coming out of the shadows of community life and assuming a distinct, lifetime character. Naming and other rites of passage sometimes acknowledge this transition, but it is, reliably, marked by the assumption or assignment of specific chores or duties. Because the physiological changes at puberty are so much more dramatic, the transition from middle childhood is more often marked by a rite of passage than the entrance into this period. There is also an acknowledgement at the exit from middle childhood, of near–adult levels of competence—as a herdsman or hunter or as gardener or infant-caretaker.

]]> David F. Lancy et al. On Not Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater or, Please Let's Not Blur Our Genres http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/96 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/96 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:59 PST David F. Lancy Apprenticeship: A Survey of Ethnographic and Historical Sources http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/95 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/95 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:57 PST David F. Lancy Whose Mummy Is It? http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/94 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/94 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:56 PST David F. Lancy The Chore Curriculum: Education Before Schooling http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/93 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/93 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:55 PST David F. Lancy Toddler Rejection http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/92 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/92 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:54 PST David F. Lancy Unmasking Children's Agency http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/91 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/91 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:53 PST The goal of this paper is to identify (unmask) and critique the movement to promote children’s agency as a cornerstone of research, care, education and intervention with children. The article makes a case that this movement is harmful to a scientific approach to the study of childhood, distorts or ignores key understandings of the evolution of childhood and culture. The article demonstrates that the agency movement is ethnocentric, classist and hegemonic representing the dominance of contemporary bourgeoisie child-rearing. It imposes a single, privileged ethnotheory of childhood upon the diverse societies of the world with alternative ethnotheories and practices. Lastly, the article argues that the movement is not efficacious either in advancing theory or practice.

]]> David F. Lancy Pedagogy Without Teaching: Folk Theories of Children’s Development http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/90 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/90 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:51 PST David F. Lancy Pick When Ripe: Native Theories of Children’s Development http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/89 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/89 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:50 PST David F. Lancy Blurring Genres: Using Multimedia to Widen the Audience for Media, Anthropology http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/88 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/88 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:49 PST David F. Lancy Cultural Constraints on Children's Play and Toys http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/87 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/87 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:48 PST David F. Lancy Play Studies in an Undergraduate Ethnography Class http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/86 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/86 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:47 PST David F. Lancy Why Anthropology of Childhood? A short history of an emerging discipline http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/85 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/85 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:45 PST The paper has four goals: to refute the claim that anthropologists have not studied childhood; to provide a cursory history of the field; to provide an organizational schema for reviewing the literature in the field and; to suggest a strategy for future scholarship in the anthropology of childhood.

]]> David F. Lancy The Achievement Gap: Ideology and Policy in Educational Programming for Low-achieving American Student http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/84 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/84 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:44 PST David F. Lancy Agency and the Role of Children in Genetic and Cultural Transmission http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/83 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/83 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:43 PST David F. Lancy Anthropology and Children: A Critical Appraisal of Hirschfield’s Claim http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/82 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/82 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:42 PST David F. Lancy Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Development http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/81 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/81 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:40 PST David F. Lancy Nature Redefined as Nurture: The Case of Mother-Infant Play http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/80 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/80 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:37 PST David F. Lancy Les Tâches Ménagères, Agricole et Butinage: L'éducation Avant la Scolarisatio http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/79 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/79 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:34 PST David F. Lancy Why Anthropology of Childhood? A Short History of an Emerging Discipline http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/78 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/78 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:33 PST David F. Lancy Gods or Gremlins: Cultural Solutions to the Problem of Infant Mortality http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/77 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/77 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:32 PST David F. Lancy Play: Then and Now http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/76 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/76 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:30 PST David F. Lancy “Baby-parading:” Child care or showing off? http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/75 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/75 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:29 PST David F. Lancy et al. Teaching and Culture http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/74 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/74 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:28 PST David F. Lancy Children’s Work and Apprenticeship http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/73 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/73 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:27 PST David F. Lancy Myths, Folk Tales and Chores in the Anthropology of Childhood http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/72 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/72 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:25 PST David F. Lancy Using Multimedia to Teach Anthropology http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/71 http://works.bepress.com/david_lancy/71 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:24 PST David F. Lancy