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Small wars: The cultural politics of childhood

Paperback • 1998 • English

Small wars: The cultural politics of childhood

By Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Carolyn Sargent

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Small Wars gathers together a hard-hitting series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures. Perceived as avenging spirits of aborted fetuses in Japan; as obstacles to, or desired commodities of, narcissistic adult fulfillment in North America; as foot soldiers cast onto the paths of drug wars in Spanish Harlem...Show more

Society and Social Sciences
Society and culture: general
Cultural policies and debates

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9780520209183

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Small wars: The cultural politics of childhood

Format

Paperback

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