RT Article
T1 How Anthropologists Raise Children Overseas: What Missionary Parents Can Learn
JF Missiology
VO 19
IS 2
SP 161
OP 170
A1 Adeney, Miriam
LA English
PB Sage
YR 1991
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777035414
AB Like missionaries, anthropologists who take their children overseas face a number of challenges. Joan Cassell's Children in the Field (1987) presents essays by nearly a dozen such anthropologists. Schooling; health care; local babysitters with different childrearing customs; siblings who adapt differently; the birth of a child; the death of a child; children as bridges; children as impediments—all are explored, along with many useful logistical strategies. A particularly intriguing finding is that several children criticize their parents for too much cultural adaptation. Might missionary children raise the same cry? How could parents respond?
DO 10.1177/009182969101900204