New Publication

The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion

Richard A. Shweder, Editor in Chief

Edited by Thomas R. Bidell, Anne C. Dailey, Suzanne D. Dixon,

Peggy J. Miller, and John Modell

The University of Chicago Press announces publication of The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. The Child is a one-volume encyclopedia that brings together for both parents and professionals the best contemporary scholarship on children and childhood from a variety of disciplines. It covers all areas of child-related study, from pediatrics, child development, and psychology to law, public policy, education, history, religion, sociology, and anthropology.

While presenting certain universal facts about children’s development from birth through adolescence, the entries also address the many worlds of childhood both within the United States and around the globe. They consider the ways in which race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and cultural traditions of child rearing can affect children’s experiences of physical and mental health, education, and family.

Alongside the topical entries, The Child includes more than forty “Imagining Each Other” essays, which focus on the particular experiences of children in different cultures. In “Work before Play for Yucatec Maya Children,” for example, readers learn of the work responsibilities of some modern-day Mexican children, while in “A Hindu Brahman Boy Is Born Again,” they witness a coming-of-age ritual in contemporary India.

The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion is available in both print and electronic editions

Hardcover: $75.00/£51.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47539-4

For more information visit http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=400991

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