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Encounters with Wild Children

Encounters with Wild Children
Author: Benzaquén, Adriana S.
Price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0773576118
ISBN-13: 9780773576117
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Since the early seventeenth century, stories of encounters with strange children in unusual circumstances have been recorded, circulated, and reproduced in Europe and North America not simply as myths, legends, or good tabloid copy but as occurrences deserving serious scrutiny by philosophers and scientists. "Wild children" were seen as privileged objects of knowledge, believed to hold answers to fundamental questions about the boundaries of the human, the character and significance of civilization, and the relation between nature and culture, heredity and environment.