Enfants Autochtones et Apprentissage: la Corporalite comme Langage en Amerique du Sud Tropicale. (Indigenous Children and Learning: the Body's Language in Tropical South America.).

da Silva, Aracy Lopes

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ERIC Number: EJ597661

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Publication Date: 1999

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Enfants Autochtones et Apprentissage: la Corporalite comme Langage en Amerique du Sud Tropicale. (Indigenous Children and Learning: the Body's Language in Tropical South America.)

da Silva, Aracy Lopes

International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, v45 n3-4 p251-268 1999

Shows how, among the cultures of the indigenous peoples of tropical South America, the human body offers a language and mechanism central to the process of production, elaboration, and transmission, of knowledge, skills, and emotions. Discusses recent anthropological debates and describes a new discipline known as "anthropology of the child." Contains 36 references. (VWC)

Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Context, Developmental Stages, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries, Human Body, Indigenous Populations, Latin American Culture, Latin Americans, Learning Processes, Skill Development

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Language: French

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Identifiers - Location: Brazil; South America

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