ABSTRACT
Over the course of social anthropology’s history, images of childhood have appeared in the literature with varying frequency, at times providing the focal point of the discipline’s vision, at others remaining marginal. Whether at the center or the periphery, however, images of childhood in anthropology have been viewed through the lens of a primary preoccupation with understanding the phenomenon of culture and its manifestations in human life. Images of childhood, in this context, have both reflected and informed anthropology’s changing conceptualizations of culture itself.
