Encounters with Wild Children
Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2006
- Category
- Child & Adolescent
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773529724
- Publish Date
- Apr 2006
- List Price
- $50.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773580855
- Publish Date
- Apr 2006
- List Price
- $44.95
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Description
Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited. Adriana Benzaquén explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate Western scientists and shows how the knowledge they have generated in different disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, linguistics, and sociology, has contributed to the shaping and reshaping of the modern understanding of "the child" and affected the social and institutional practices directed at all children in schools, welfare, mental health, and the law.
About the author
Adriana S. Benzaquén is assistant professor, history, Mount Saint Vincent University.