Encounters with wild children :: temptation and disappointment in the study of human nature /

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 Benzaquén explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate We...

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1. Verfasser: Benzaquén, Adriana S.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2006]
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Zusammenfassung: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 Benzaquén 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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 393 pages : illustrations, portraits
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-380) and index.
ISBN:9780773576117
0773576118
1282866575
9781282866577
9786612866579
6612866578
0773580859
9780773580855

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