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“Babies Aren’t Persons”: A Survey of Delayed Personhood, Different Faces of Attachment: Cultural Variations of a Universal Human Need (2013)
To better understand attachment from a cross-cultural and historical perspective, I have amassed over 200...
“First You Must Master Pain:” The Nature and Purpose of Apprenticeship, Society for the Anthropology of Work Review (2012)
The goal of this study is to distill from a large body of literature on...
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Evidence of a Cultural Acquisition Device, Multiple Perspectives on the Evolution of
Childhood
(2012)
Unmasking Children's Agency, AnthropoChildren (2012)
The goal of this paper is to identify (unmask) and critique the movement to promote...
Why Anthropology of Childhood? A short history of an emerging discipline, AnthropoChildren (2012)
The paper has four goals: to refute the claim that anthropologists have not studied childhood;...
Apprenticeship: A Survey of Ethnographic and Historical Sources, Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (2011)
Cross‐cultural Perspectives on Agency Across the Lifespan: Infancy (with Elizabeth Payne), “Children's Agency” Second Joint
AAACIG/SCCR Conference
(2011)
“Getting Noticed”: Middle Childhood inCross-Cultural Perspective (with M. A. Grove), Human Nature (2011)
Although rarely named, the majority of societies in the ethnographic record demarcate a period between...
Les Tâches Ménagères, Agricole et Butinage: L'éducation Avant la
Scolarisatio, Séminaire “Regards Croisés sur la Petite Enfance” (2011)
Marbles and Machiavelli: The Role of Game Play in Children’s Social Development
(with M. A. Grove), American Journal of Play (2011)
The Chore Curriculum: Education Before Schooling, Schooling in Anthropology: Learning the “Modern Way” (2011)
Why Anthropology of Childhood? A Short History of an Emerging Discipline
, Institute of Human and Social Sciences, University of Liege (2011)
Learning “From Nobody:” The Limited Role of Teaching in Folk Models of Children’s Development, SSWA Faculty Publications (2010)
The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood (with John Bock and Suzanne Gaskins), Utah State University Faculty Monographs (2010)
This first major anthropological reference book on childhood learning considers the cultural aspects of learning...
When Nurture Becomes Nature: Ethnocentrism in Studies of Human
Development, SSWA Faculty Publications (2010)
Agency and the Role of Children in Genetic and Cultural Transmission, Institute for the African Child (2009)
Cultural Transmission and the Paradox of
Children’s Agency
, American Anthropological Association
(2009)
Pedagogy Without Teaching: Folk Theories of Children’s Development, International Conference on Culture and the Mind (2009)
Pick When Ripe: Native Theories of Children’s Development, School of Teaching and Learning, Ohio State University (2009)
The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings, Utah State University Faculty Monographs (2008)
The raising of children, their role in society, and the degree to which family and...
The Elastic Nature of Childhood, Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Society for Anthropological Sciences
(2008)
The Long and Short of it: Social Construction of Childhood, The Centre for the
Study of Childhood and Youth
(2008)
Accounting for Variability in Mother-Child Play, American Anthropologist (2007)
In this article, I highlight contrasting perspectives in the study of mother–child play. One contrast...
“Baby-parading:” Child care or showing off? (with M. A. Grove), Society for Anthropological Sciences (2006)
Nature Redefined as Nurture: The Case of Mother-Infant Play, American Anthropological Association (2006)
Gods or Gremlins: Cultural Solutions to the Problem of Infant Mortality, American Anthropological Association (2005)
A Developmental Ecology of Kpelle Children’s Play, The Cultural Construction of Play Jean Piaget Society (2003)
Anthropology and Children: A Critical Appraisal of Hirschfield’s
Claim, The Association for the Study of Play (2003)
Get the Word Out! Informing Undergraduates of
Research Opportunities (with B. Dethier), SSWA Faculty Publications (2002)
The Achievement Gap: Ideology and Policy in Educational
Programming for Low-achieving American Student, Int’l Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (2002)
What Value Do Parents from Differing Societies Attach to Play? , Association for the Study of Play (2001)
Play Studies in an Undergraduate Ethnography Class, The Association for the Study of Play and The Society
for Cross-Cultural Research
(1999)
Blurring Genres: Using Multimedia to Widen the Audience for Media,
Anthropology
, American Anthropological Association (1998)
Using Multimedia to Teach Anthropology, Workshop for 14th International Congress of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences
(1998)
Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's
Development
, Society for Research in Child
Development
(1997)
Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children’s Development, SSWA Faculty Publications (1996)
The Effects of a CD-ROM Storybook Program on Head Start Children's Emergent Literacy
(with S. Talley), Society for
Research in Child Development
(1995)
A Sense of Community: Collaboration in a
Large Anthropology Class (with A. Rhees and Joyce Kinkead), SSWA Faculty Publications (1994)
On Not Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater or, Please Let's Not
Blur Our Genres
, First Annual University of Northern Colorado
Symposium on Qualitative Research
(1994)
Qualitative Research in Education: An Introduction to the Major Traditions, SSWA Faculty Publications (1993)
The Ginger Bread Man meets CD-ROM (with P. T. Stoddart and Joyce Kinkead), SSWA Faculty Publications (1993)
Parents as Volunteers: Storybook Readers/Listeners (with A. Nattiv), Childhood Education (1992)
Discusses the development, implementation and implications of the Parent Assisted Reading Program at the Sunrise...
Educating with Computers in Trinidad and Tobago, Educational Technology Research and Development (1990)
It had been nearly ten years since my last overseas stint (Papua, New Guinea 1976-80),...
Looking for Yourself: The Classroom Teacher as Researcher (with Joyce Kinkead), SSWA Faculty Publications (1990)
An Information Processing Framework for the Study of Culture and Thought, SSWA Faculty Publications (1989)
Girls and Microcomputers: A Hopeful Finding (with A. S. Forsyth, Jr.), Computers in the Schools (1989)
Discusses gender differences in student attitudes toward computers and examines software characteristics that may affect...
Parental Influence on Children's Acquisition of Reading (with K. Draper and G. Boyce), SSWA Faculty Publications (1989)
Rhinestone Cowgirl: The Education of a Rodeo Queen (with M. Raitt), SSWA Faculty Publications (1988)
An After-School Program Utilizing
Computers (with A. S. Forsyth, Jr. and L. L. Meeks), SSWA Faculty Publications (1987)
Simulated Travel and Place Location Learning in a Computer Adventure Game (with A. S. Forsyth, Jr.), SSWA Faculty Publications (1987)
The Message is the Medium: Studies of Computer Applications in
School, SSWA Faculty Publications (1987)
Will Video Games Alter the Relationship Between Play and Development? , SSWA Faculty Publications (1987)
A Pen or a Bush Knife? School, Work and "Personal Investment" in Papua New Guinea (with Alice Pomponio), Anthropology and Education Quarterly (1986)
This article discusses a perennial problem in education in developing nations: how to balance the...
Computer Adventure Games and the Development of Information Processing Skills (with B. Hayes and B. Evans), SSWA Faculty Publications (1985)
Using the Joystick as a Tool to Promote Intellectual Growth and Social Interaction (with H. Cohen, B. Evans, N. Levine, and M. L. Nevin), SSWA Faculty Publications (1985)
Using Non-Verbal Piagetian Tasks to Assess the Cognitive
Development of Autistic Children (with G. Golstein), SSWA Faculty Publications (1982)
"Making-Twos": Pairing as an Alternative to the Taxonomic Mode of Representation (with Andrew J. Strathem), American Anthropologist (1981)
Melpa-speaking children do very poorly on cognitive tasks, in general, and as compared to children...
Cooperative and Competitive Behavior: Experiments
Related to Ethnic Identity and Urbanization in Papua New Guinea (with M. C. Madsen), SSWA Faculty Publications (1981)
Cultural Patterns and the Social Behavior of Children: Two Studies from Papua New Guinea (with M. C. Madsen), SSWA Faculty Publications (1981)
Intra-Cultural Variation in Cognitive Development: Conservation of Length among the Imbonggu (with R. J. Souviney and V. Kada), SSWA Faculty Publications (1981)
The Indigenous Mathematics Project: An Overview, Educational Studies in Mathematics (1981)
A multi-disciplinary team research project is described. The project is being undertaken in Papua New...
Becoming a Blacksmith in Gbarngasuakwelle, Anthropology and Education Quarterly (1980)
In analyzing the processes involved in becoming a blacksmith in a Kpelle town in West...
The Anthropological Study of Play:
Problems and Prospects (with B. A. Tindall), SSWA Faculty Publications (1976)
The Beliefs and Behaviors of Pupils in an Experimental School:
Introduction and Overview; The Science Lab; School Setting, SSWA Faculty Publications (1976)