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Synopsis
This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Graves's Behavioral Anthropology. Graves and his co-authors offer fifteen research essays as supplemental readings in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. For those concerned with a behavioral, scientific approach to anthropology, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.
Booknews
Focuses on the development of the child's drawing and writing capacity, describing the development stages as found from a decade of research, presenting theories and their significance, and outlining the primary steps in developing and applying a new approach to helping children acquire the skills. Explains the importance of guiding and instructing children in graphic activities, how it should be pursued, and the results to be expected. Addressed to parents and kindergarten and elementary school teachers. Perhaps because the field is so new, the bibliography is quite short. First published in 1993 by Ranot, Tel-Aviv University Publishing House. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)