Author : Nana Clemensen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178920352X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Ambiguous Childhoods by : Nana Clemensen
Download or read book Ambiguous Childhoods written by Nana Clemensen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up with social and economic upheaval in the peripheries of global neoliberalism, children in rural Zambia are presented with diverging social and moral protocols across homes, classrooms, church halls, and the streets. Mostly unmonitored by adults, they explore the ambiguities of adult life in playful interactions with their siblings and kin across gender and age. Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of such interactions combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.