Encounters with Wild Children

Encounters with Wild Children
Author :
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 400
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780773576117
ISBN-13 : 0773576118
Rating : 4/5 (118 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Encounters with Wild Children by : Adriana S. Benzaquén

Download or read book Encounters with Wild Children written by Adriana S. Benzaquén and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Encounters with Wild Children Related Books

Encounters with Wild Children
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Adriana S. Benzaquén
Categories: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these
Wild Child
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Naomi Morgenstern
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-08 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future
Childhood and Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Vicky Lebeau
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Vicky Lebeau investigates how films use children to probe such themes as sexuality, death, imagination, the terrors of childhood, and hope.
Francia, Band 47
Language: de
Pages: 559
Authors: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-19 - Publisher: Thorbecke

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Der Band enthält 31 Beiträge in deutscher, französischer und englischer Sprache. Die Themenvielfalt reicht von Gregor dem Großen und der Bekämpfung von Hä
Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Amelia DeFalco
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the human as an aff