Infants Children and Youth

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>How does the place economy and culture of where a person is born and raised impact the development of their personhood over their life course?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Drawing from five case studies across diverse global contexts social anthropologist </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>María Florencia Amigó</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> considers how cultural identity engrained beliefs and practices and economic determinants can shape destinies by looking at how babies become children and children become independent adults.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Connecting stories across disconnected and distant places </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)><em>Infants Children and Youth</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> explores growing up in adverse contexts. Beginning with early childhood malnutrition and stunting in Aceh Indonesia the book moves through the life course to next consider young children of migrant parents in Sydney Australia. Back in Indonesia older children contribute to their families' survival by working as domestic helpers sand miners and labourers in tobacco plantations in the island of Lombok. In their teenage years Nepalese maidens and young men negotiate autonomy and early marriage. Finally </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Amigó</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> documents the transition from high school to workplace for youth from disadvantaged Sydney suburbs.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Addressing themes such as health work education and social reproduction this book is ideal reading for students of Anthropology Human Geography Sociology Education Cultural Studies and Gerontology.</span></p><p></p>