List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Explorations in generational analysis, 3 Negotiating autonomy: childhoods in rural Bolivia, 4 Dependent, independent and interdependent relations: children as members of the family household in West Berlin, 5 The negotiation of influence: children's experience of parental education practices in Geneva, 6 What are schools for? The temporal experience of children's learning in Northern England, 7 Culture and childhood in pastoralist communities: the example of Outer Mongolia, 8 Some Sydney children define abuse: implications for agency in childhood, 9 Understanding childhoods: a London study, 10 Childhood as a generational condition: children's daily lives in a central Finland town, Bibliography, Index
