Maya Children : : Helpers at the Farm /

Maya Children : : Helpers at the Farm / / Karen L. Kramer.

Among the Maya of Xculoc, an isolated farming village in the lowland forests of the Yucatán peninsula, children contribute to household production in considerable ways. Thus this village, the subject of anthropologist Karen Kramer's study, affords a remarkable opportunity for understanding the...

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VerfasserIn:
Kramer, Karen L.,
MitwirkendeR:
Boone, James L.,
Lancaster, Jane,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Children as Helpers at the Nest
  • 2. Sources of Variation in Children’s Time Allocation
  • 3. Situating the Maya
  • 4. Maya Families
  • 5. Sampling the Population
  • 6. How Maya Children Spend Their Time
  • 7. Production and Consumption across the Life Course
  • 8. Children’s Help from a Parent’s Perspective
  • 9. How Long to Stay and Help?
  • 10. Do Helpers Really Help?
  • Postscript: The Unfolding World of the Maya
  • Appendix A: Tables
  • Appendix B: Food List
  • Appendix C: Explanation of Scan and Focal-Follow Variables
  • Appendix D: Adjusting an Analysis of Variance for Proportional Data
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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