Titlebook: Child Survival; Anthropological Pers Nancy Scheper-Hughes Book 1987 D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987 Case Management.Child Abuse.Child Sex

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Infanticide Among the Tarahumara of the Mexican Sierra Madrefear of lightning among the Tarahumara, noted as early as the 17th century (González Rodríguez 1982: 178, 196) and today expressed in their baptismal ceremonies (Mull 1985), at first glance seems irrational—a “primitive” fear. It becomes more understandable, however, once it is realized that (a) lig

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Fitness and Survivale, health, nutritional and social status of the mother, the proportion of preterm infants serves as an indicator of the health status of the communities into which they are born. Key factors contributing to low birth weight are low socioeconomic status, mother’s very young age, multiple pregnancies,

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External Pressure/Internal Change: Child Neglect on the Navajo Reservationn between family members and kinsmen, alcohol abuse and child neglect. The existence of such families is not unique to the Navajo Reservation, but the context within which child abuse and neglect occurs is culturally specific.

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Cry Babies, Culture, and Catastrophe: Infant Temperament Among the Masaiations in ethnicity and child-rearing practices (Whiting and Child 1953; Geber 1958; Horton 1962; Le Vine 1974; Burton and Kirk 1976; de Vries and de Vries 1977; Werner 1979; Super and Harkness 1982). The impact of infant care practices and ecological factors on infant mortality has also been docume

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Severe Child Abuse Among the Canadian Inuitstupid and knocked him reeling on the floor with a blow to the side of the head.... A few day later Irniguluk was complaining to others in the village about his terrible headaches, but he never mentioned the cause, and no one outside of the household knew of the outburst.... Someone had shot some ca

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The Treatment of Children in the “Dirty War”: Ideology, State Terrorism and the Abuse of Children in half of the 1970s.. In the following pages we analyze the use, abuse and meaning of children during the so called ‘dirty war.’ An aim of the chapter is to identify the socio-atmospheric conditions in which state sponsored abuse of children became an intrinsic part of the political discourse of the

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Child Sexual Abuse: Implications from the Cross-Cultural Recorde in Euro-American nations. Anthropological complacency about the rarity of incest and sexual conduct within the family has been seriously challenged by recent epidemiological, sociological, and clinical data (e.g. Finkelhor 1979; Herman 1981; Mrazek and Kempe 1981). Conventional wisdom has supporte

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Preliminary Remarks on a Study of Incest In Englandfairs has not passed without comment from those concerned with the sexual abuse of children (Forward and Buck 1978, Willner 1983). As early as 1963, Masters remarked, “One should always keep in mind, as anthropologists often do not, that the existence of a formal incest prohibition does not mean tha

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