Heather Montgomery

This collection of autobiographical essays offers a vivid and harrowing picture of war and its impact on daily life, as seen by two distinct perspectives. Israeli and Palestinian.

Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation

Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation

"Briefly presents specific survival strategies that can be used in various earthquake survival situations"--Provided by publisher.

How to Survive an Earthquake

Martin Woodhead

Rachel Burr

The fourth volume in this series on childhood studies considers the status of children and society and the significance of children's rights. It is illustrated with both cross-cultural and historical examples from across the world.

Local and Global

Changing Childhoods

Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as prostitutes consulted of questioned in this process, and the voices of these children brought into focus. This book is the first to address the children directly, to examine their daily lives, their motivations and their perceptions of what they do. Based on 15 months of fieldwork in a Thai tourist community that survived through child prostitution, this book draws on anthropological theories on childhood and kinship to contextualize the experiences of this group of Thai child prostitutes and to contrast these with the stereotypes held of them by those outside their community.

Prostituting Children in Thailand

Modern Babylon?

In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty years. Offers a comprehensive overview of childhood from an anthropological perspective Draws upon a wide range of examples and evidence from different geographical areas and belief systems Synthesizes existing literature on the anthropology of childhood, while providing a fresh perspective Engages students with illustrative ethnographies to illuminate key topics and themes

Heather Montgomery

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