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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790207403321

Autore

Simms Eva M

Titolo

The child in the world [[electronic resource] ] : embodiment, time, and language in early childhood / / Eva M. Simms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Mich., : Wayne State University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8143-3840-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Landscapes of childhood

Disciplina

155.42/3

Soggetti

Child psychology

Child development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Milk and flesh : infancy and coexistence -- The world's skin ever expanding : spatiality and the structures of child consciousness -- About hens, hands, and old-fashioned telephones : gestural bodies and participatory consciousness -- The child in the world of things -- Playing at the edge : what we can learn from therapeutic play -- Because we are the upsurge of time : toward a genetic phenomenology of lived time -- Babble in the house of being : pointing, grammar, and metaphor in early language acquisition -- The invention of childhood : historical and cultural changes in selfhood and literacy.