An interesting special issue of Human Nature (22\/3, Sept. 2011) on middle childhood:<\/p>\n
From Benjamin C. Campbell\u2019s Introduction:<\/p>\n
\u201cMiddle childhood is recognized by developmental psychologists as a distinct developmental stage between early childhood and adolescence, defined by increasing cognitive development, emotional regulation, and relative social independence. Adults have increasing expectations of children during middle childhood, as reflected in Sheldon\u2019s White\u2019s (1996) description of this stage as \u201cthe age of reason and responsibility.\u201d Developmentally, the onset of middle childhood is defined by Piaget\u2019s (1963) \u201c5 to 7 transition,\u201d with the end marked by the onset of puberty… \u201cIn this special issue we examine middle childhood in both evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives to understand its origins, physiological correlates, and ecological and cultural variability.”<\/p>\n
“Jennifer Thompson and Andrew Nelson\u2019s (2011) \u201cMiddle Childhood and Modern Human Origins\u201d considers evidence for middle childhood in the human fossil record, suggesting that middle childhood may emerge only with the advent of modern humans. David Lancy and Annette Grove\u2019s (2011) \u201cGetting Noticed: Middle Childhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective\u201d provides ethnographic evidence across a variety of cultures from a variety of subsistence types, in support of middle childhood as universal developmental period in which children make a great effort to enter the public arena. In \u201cMiddle Childhood among Pum\u00e9 Foragers,\u201d Karen Kramer and Russell Greaves (2011) place somatic development among Pum\u00e9 girls in the larger context of other foraging groups. They suggest that Pum\u00e9 girls grow faster than girls in similar subsistence populations because they expend less energy during middle childhood. Finally, Benjamin Campbell\u2019s (2011) \u201cAdrenarche and Middle Childhood\u201d provides a synthesis of the role of adrenarche not only as a marker of middle childhood, but as a potential coordinator of behavioral changes during this developmental period.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThe articles in this issue represent a holistic approach, integrating biological, social, and cultural perspectives, and using new tools to look at the closely linked biological (hormones, neurophysiology), behavioral, and cultural factors during this key transitional childhood period. In so doing we hope to shed light on an important but neglected stage of human development.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Table of content of the special issue:<\/p>\n
Benjamin C. Campbell: \u201cAn Introduction to the Special Issue on Middle Childhood\u201d Jennifer L. Thompson and Andrew J. Nelson: \u201cMiddle Childhood and Modern Human Origins\u201d David F. Lancy and M. Annette Grove: \u201cGetting Noticed: Middle Childhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective\u201d Karen L. Kramer and Russell D. Greaves: \u201cJuvenile Subsistence Effort, Activity Levels, and Growth Patterns: Middle Childhood among Pum\u00e9 Foragers\u201d Benjamin C. Campbell: \u201cAdrenarche and Middle Childhood\u201d<\/p>\n
(In the same issue ( pp.225-246) , an article well-worth reading on the Darkness in Eldorado debacle: Alice Dreger: \u201cDarkness\u2019s Descent on the American Anthropological Association: A Cautionary Tale\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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