David Lancy

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David Lancy is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Santa Barbara, Utah State University, Arizona State University, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Utah

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According to Wikipedia, David Lancy is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at Utah State University. He has made contributions to childhood development and the concept of "chore curriculum." He has been called "perhaps the world’s leading expert on child-parent relationships throughout the world." In 2001, he was awarded the Carnegie Foundation's Professor of the Year.

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David Lancy's Published Works

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Published Works

Qualitative Research in Education: An Introduction to the Major Traditions (1993) (382)
Likeness and Likelihood in Everyday Thought: Magical Thinking in Judgments About Personality [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (299)
The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings (2008) (286)
The cultural construction of play (2007) (203)
Playing on the Mother-Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Development. Culture and Human Development. (1998) (193)
The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood (2010) (152)
Accounting for variability in mother-child play (2007) (128)
Cross-cultural studies in cognition and mathematics (1984) (125)
Learning 'From Nobody': The Limited Role of Teaching in Folk Models of Children's Development (2010) (114)
Play in Species Adaptation (1980) (69)
“Making Twos”: Pairing as an Alternative to the Taxonomic Mode of Representation (1981) (58)
Getting Noticed (2011) (56)
Children, Storybooks and Computers. (1997) (49)
Unmasking Children’s Agency (2012) (47)
Becoming a Blacksmith in Gbarngasuakwelle (1980) (44)
Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers (2017) (43)
Playing With Knives: The Socialization of Self-Initiated Learners. (2016) (43)
Children's Emergent Literacy: From Research to Practice (1994) (41)
Babies Aren’t Persons:” A Survey of Delayed Personhood. (2014) (38)
The chore curriculum. (2012) (37)
“First You Must Master Pain”: The Nature and Purpose of Apprenticeship (2012) (32)
Work, play and learning in a Kpelle town (1974) (30)
The anthropology of childhood: Cherubs, chattel, changelings, 2nd ed. (2015) (28)
Teaching: Natural or Cultural? (2016) (27)
The Indigenous Mathematics Project (1978) (26)
Parental Influence on Children's Acquisition of Reading (1989) (24)
Cultural Constraints on Children’s Play (2001) (24)
The use of nonverbal Piagetian tasks to assess the cognitive development of autistic children. (1982) (22)
The Social Organization of Learning Initiation Rituals and Public Schools. (1975) (21)
Simulated Travel and Place Location Learning in a Computer Adventure Game (1987) (21)
Marbles and Machiavelli: The Role of Game Play in Children's Social Development. (2011) (20)
Cooperative and Competitive Behavior (1981) (20)
Girls and microcomputers: a hopeful finding regarding software (1990) (20)
When nurture becomes nature: Ethnocentrism in studies of human development (2010) (19)
Interactive Fiction and the Reluctant Reader (1988) (19)
The Role of Parents in Supporting Beginning Reading. (1992) (18)
Children as a Reserve Labor Force (2015) (18)
Homo Faber Juvenalis: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Children as Tool Makers/Users (2017) (17)
Studying Children and Schools: Qualitative Research Traditions (2000) (17)
The anthropological study of play : problems and prospects : proceedings of the first annual meeting of the association for the anthropological study of play (1976) (17)
Why Anthropology of Childhood? A brief history of an emerging discipline (2012) (17)
Middle Childhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2011) (16)
Aggressive display in the Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) (1972) (15)
Learning Guided by Others (2010) (15)
A Pen or a Bushknife? School, Work, and "Personal Investment" in Papua New Guinea (1986) (14)
Microcomputers and the Social Studies (1990) (14)
Growing Up in Central Australia: New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence (2012) (14)
The indigenous mathematics project: An overview (1981) (13)
Raising Children: Surprising Insights from Other Cultures (2017) (12)
How Do Children Become Workers? Making Sense of Conflicting Accounts of Cultural Transmission in Anthropology and Psychology (2016) (10)
New Studies of Children's Work, Acquisition of Critical Skills, and Contribution to the Domestic Economy (2016) (10)
Children’s Learning in New Settings (2010) (10)
What one faculty member does to promote undergraduate research (2003) (9)
Ethnographic perspectives on culture acquisition. (2016) (9)
Cultural Views of LIfe Phases (2015) (8)
The cultural construction of play: Evolutionary, sociocultural, and functional perspe (2007) (7)
A Four‐Field Anthropology of Childhood (2008) (7)
Cognitive Development in Autistic Children (1985) (7)
STUDIES OF MEMORY IN CULTURE (1977) (7)
Child Helpers (2020) (6)
"Teaching is so WEIRD". (2015) (6)
Play in Anthropological Perspective (1984) (6)
The Anthropology of Childhood (2022) (5)
Mapping the landscape of children’s play. (2015) (5)
Intra-Cultural Variation in Cognitive Development: Conservation of Length Among the Imbonggu (1981) (5)
The Classroom as Phenomenon (1978) (5)
Will Video Games Alter the Relationship Between Play and Development (1987) (5)
Parents as Volunteers: Storybook Readers/Listeners (1992) (5)
The Play Behavior of Kpelle Children During Rapid Cultural Change (1976) (4)
Education Research 1976-1979: Reports and Essays (1979) (4)
Work as Play: The Kpelle Case (1980) (4)
The study of play : problems and prospects : proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play (1977) (4)
Computer Adventure Games and the Development of Information Processing Skills (1985) (3)
Speech Events in a West African Court (1980) (3)
Teaching With Technology (2001) (3)
The Effects of a CD-ROM Storybook Program on Head Start Children's Emergent Literacy (1995) (3)
Using the Joystick as a Tool to Promote Intellectual Growth and Social Interaction (1985) (3)
Apprenticeship: A Survey of Ethnographic and Historical Sources (2011) (2)
Cultural variation in life phases. (2014) (2)
Cultural Patterns and the Social Behavior of Children: Two Studies from Papua New Guinea (1981) (2)
Some Observations on Technology and Education in Papua New Guinea (1980) (2)
Teaching with Technology-Digital Slides (1999) (2)
Selected Sources (1992) (2)
The Beliefs and Behaviors of Pupils in an Experimental School: Introduction and Overview; The Science Lab; School Setting (1976) (2)
Kpelle Children at Play (2015) (1)
A Sense of Community: Collaboration in a Large Anthropology Class (1994) (1)
The Microcomputer and Social Studies (1990) (1)
Whose Mummy? (1999) (1)
The Impact of the Modern World on Village Life: Gbarngasuakwelle (1977) (1)
Cultural Models of Stages in the Life Course (2018) (1)
The Anthropology of Children (2004) (1)
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (2010) (1)
An Information Processing Framework for the Study of Culture and Thought (1989) (1)
Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Childhood (2008) (1)
Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa. Margaret Trawick. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2007. xii+308 pp. (2010) (1)
Civilization in the 21st Century (2000) (1)
Rhinestone Cowgirl: The Education of a Rodeo Queen (1988) (1)
Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning (2009) (1)
Work in Children’s Lives (2018) (1)
"Gett ing Noticed": Middle Childhood inCross- Cultural Perspective (2011) (1)
The Message is the Medium: Studies of Computer Applications in School (1987) (1)
The Effects of Culture Change on Children’s Work (2018) (1)
The autotelic learning environment revisited: an exploratory study. (1991) (1)
“Baby-parading:” Child care or showing off? (2006) (1)
“Poor brain development” in the global South? Challenging the science of early childhood interventions (2023) (1)
Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Child Development (2008) (0)
Whose Mummy is It?; An Interactive Introduction to Egyptology (2000) (0)
The Consequences of Raising “Unique Individuals” (2017) (0)
Agency and the Role of Children in Genetic and Cultural Transmission (2009) (0)
Play Studies in an Undergraduate Ethnography Class (1999) (0)
Role of age in employee performance a knowledge management respondent- A hypothetical study (2019) (0)
Nature Redefined as Nurture: The Case of Mother-Infant Play (2006) (0)
Children’s Work and Apprenticeship (2012) (0)
Educating with computers in Trinidad & Tobago (1990) (0)
Keynote Address for Symposium "Tracing School Effects: Toward a Critical Anthropology of Education" (2012) (0)
EDUtainment in Anthropology (1999) (0)
Teaching and Culture (2004) (0)
Building an Anthology of "Interactive Fiction.". (1986) (0)
Summary and Speculation (2017) (0)
The Beliefs and Behaviors of Pupils in an Experimental School: The Science Lab. (1976) (0)
Anthropological Study of Literacy and Numeracy (1994) (0)
Mathematics in the Vernacular@@@Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics (1984) (0)
Collaboration in the Study of Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Learning (2008) (0)
Teaching Strategies for Anthropology Classes that Focus on Children and Youth (2008) (0)
Cultural Transmission and the Paradox ofChildren’s Agency (2009) (0)
General Anthropology Division: COTA News (2003) (0)
Constraints on Infant Attachment: Evidence from the Ethnographic Record (2010) (0)
Going to School (2017) (0)
Myths, Folk Tales and Chores in the Anthropology of Childhood (1999) (0)
Interdisciplinary Research: The NCUR/Lancy Awards (2003) (0)
From Playing to Working (2018) (0)
An After-School Program Utilizing Computers (1987) (0)
Cross‐cultural Perspectives on Agency Across the Lifespan: Infancy (2011) (0)
Blurring Genres: Using Multimedia to Widen the Audience for Media, Anthropology (1998) (0)
Gods or Gremlins: Cultural Solutions to the Problem of Infant Mortality (2005) (0)
Get the Word Out! Informing Undergraduates of Research Opportunities (2002) (0)
The Beliefs and Behaviors of Pupils in an Experimental School: School Settings. (1976) (0)
Folk Theories of Intelligence: When Should Teaching Begin? (2008) (0)
Children as Laborers (2018) (0)
Using Non-Verbal Piagetian Tasks to Assess the CognitiveDevelopment of Autistic Children (1982) (0)
The Kin Game (1998) (0)
Play: Then and Now (2010) (0)
The Autotelic Environment Revisited: An Exploratory Study (1991) (0)
Pick When Ripe: Native Theories of Children’s Development (2009) (0)
The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru. Jessaca B. Leinaweaver (2010) (0)
The Elastic Nature of Childhood (2008) (0)
Spirit Children: Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana. Denham, Aaron R.. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 2017. iv‐217 pp. (2017) (0)
The Ginger-Bread Man Meets CD-ROM (1993) (0)
“How Children Become Persons.” “The Dichotomous Infant: Devil vs Angel, Hard vs Soft, Hot vs Cold, Open vs Closed. (2012) (0)
The Achievement Gap: Ideology and Policy in Educational Programming for Low-achieving American Student (2002) (0)
Some missed opportunities in theories of play (1982) (0)
Using Multimedia to Teach Anthropology (1998) (0)
Taking the Pain Out of Testing (2000) (0)
Culture and Infancy (2017) (0)
On Not Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater or, Please Let's Not Blur Our Genres (1994) (0)
Culture, Social Class and Emergent Literacy (1995) (0)
Pedagogy Without Teaching: Folk Theories of Children’s Development (2009) (0)
Writing Assignments in Large Introductory Classes (2000) (0)
"Whose Mummy Is It?" A simulated Tour of Egypt. (1999) (0)
Protection versus Suppression (2017) (0)
The Long and Short of it: Social Construction of Childhood (2008) (0)
A Developmental Ecology of Kpelle Children’s Play (2003) (0)
Introduction: Leave the Kids Alone (2017) (0)
The Chore Curriculum: Education Before Schooling (2011) (0)
Looking for Yourself: The Classroom Teacher as Researcher (0)
Socio-Dramatic Play and the Acquisition of Occupational Roles (1982) (0)
Contrasting Cultural Models of Children’s Development (2010) (0)
The Limited Role of Teaching in Children’s Acquisition of the Tools for Survival (2011) (0)
Cultural Constraints on Children's Play and Toys (1998) (0)
What Value Do Parents from Differing Societies Attach to Play (2001) (0)
Children, Play, Parents and Learning (2008) (0)
Re-Staging Childhood (2009) (0)
Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children's Mental Wellbeing: Summary of the Evidence. (2023) (0)
The C hore Curriculum (2012) (0)
Children Playing and Learning (2017) (0)
Chapter Twenty-Eight Mapping the Landscape of Children ’ s Play (2018) (0)
Anthropology and Children: A Critical Appraisal of Hirschfield’sClaim (2003) (0)
Questions about Infant Attachment (2017) (0)
It's Not Just What You Do but How You Do it That Counts (1995) (0)
The NCUR/Lancy Summer Research Fellowships (2000) (0)
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Evidence of a Cultural Acquisition Device (2012) (0)

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