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The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought

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The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought

Alexander Francis Chamberlain

586 pages~11 hr 41 min read86 chapters$4.99
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What have the world's peoples believed about children? Alexander Chamberlain gathers the folklore: the child's tribute to the mother, childhood in myth, proverb and custom across cultures, assembled with an anthropologist's patience. A vast, browsable treasury from the 1890s on how humanity has imagined its young. Folk wisdom about children, collected whole.

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86 chapters

  1. 1THE CHILD AND CHILDHOOD IN FOLK-THOUGHT
  2. 2THE CHILD AND CHILDHOOD IN FOLK-THOUGHT (THE CHILD IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE)
  3. 3TO
  4. 4PREFATORY NOTE.
  5. 5CONTENTS.
  6. 6I. CHILD-STUDY
  7. 7CHAPTER I.
  8. 8CHILD-STUDY.
  9. 9CHAPTER II.
  10. 10THE CHILD'S TRIBUTE TO THE MOTHER.
  11. 11CHAPTER III.
  12. 12CHAPTER IV.
  13. 13THE CHILD'S TRIBUTE TO THE FATHER.
  14. 14CHAPTER V.
  15. 15THE NAME CHILD.
  16. 16CHAPTER VI.
  17. 17THE CHILD IN THE PRIMITIVE LABORATORY.
  18. 18CHAPTER VII.

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