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Children of the Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development and Malnutrition in Guatemala City
Children of the Urban Poor The Sociocultural Environment of Growth Development and Malnutrition in Guatemala City Author:Francis E. Johnston, Setha M. Low Drawing on biomedical and ethnographic methodologies to study the stresses and strategies employed by poor urban families in Guatemala City, this book assesses the development of the children raised under difficult conditions. With an emphasis on growth, cognition and educational achievement as outcomes of successful strategies, the book should ... more »be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and educators, as well as scholars interested in problems of Third World development.« less