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Abandoned Children Paperback - 2000

by Catherine Panter-Brick (Editor); Malcolm T. Smith (Editor)


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The situation of children abandoned by adults, in foundling homes, sleeping rough in the streets, in refugee camps, and in other circumstances, attracts much political and journalistic attention, but surprisingly little from social scientists. As the editors of this volume point out, there is therefore not enough said about the varieties of experiences summarized as "abandonment." Nor has enough effort been put into studying the perspectives of children themselves on their situation. Situating the discourse on child abandonment in the more general field of debate on children, both historical and ethnographic, this book attempts to show that the presentations of "abandoned" children tend to take for granted ethnocentric ideas about what children can and should do, and about what their relationship should be with adults.

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To a casual observer, children who languish in foundling institutions, sleep rough on the streets of crowded urban centres or find themselves confined to refugee camps appear to all intents and purposes abandoned, either by their parents or by society.

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  • Title Abandoned Children
  • Author Catherine Panter-Brick (Editor); Malcolm T. Smith (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2000-08-03
  • ISBN 9780521775557 / 0521775558
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 6.03 x 0.63 in (22.89 x 15.32 x 1.60 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Abandoned children - History, Foundlings - Care - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99047719
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.760
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