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Historical vignettes about ‘inappropriate’ humour surrounding the child Louis XIII in the French court by adults around him (Ariès 1973), or reminders about the one time economic value of children in the United States of America (Zelizer 1994) show how deep the normalized idea of protected childhood has sunk in many contemporary societies, particularly within a span of a century.
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The third Presidency was the Bombay Presidency, which is in the region of the current state of Maharashtra. However, without sufficient knowledge or research on childhoods in this region, a comparative perspective cannot be drawn.
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The practice of polygamy among the kwlin Bralmrins ofBengal.
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The phrase ‘null zoff und voll busy’ was used by Zinnecker, Behnken and Stecher in one of their research projects and literally translated means ‘zero trouble and completely busy’.Contrasting childhoods in West Germany over three generations, the phrase was used to describe the generation of young people growing up in the new millennium, as opposed to their grandparental or the ‘null Bock’ (zero ambition), and the parental generations.
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Hengst in Collective Identities uses the term 'layering (Hengst 2009, p.205). I prefer the translation than the term ‘stratification’ which has been used in some other English translations of Erlebnisschichtung.
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The term ‘bright line of age has been used by Bluebond-Langner and Korbin in Challenges and Opportunities in the Anthropology of Childhoods: An Introduction to “Children, Childhoods, and Childhood Studies” (Bluebond-Langner & Korbin 2007,p.242)
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Sen, H. (2014). Conclusion. In: ‘Time-Out’ in the Land of Apu. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02223-5_10
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