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17 - Ownership and Exchange in Children: Implications for Social and Moral Development

from Part IV - Institutional Artifacts for Value

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2018

By
Gustavo Faigenbaum
Edited by
Alberto Rosa  and
Jaan Valsiner
Alberto Rosa
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jaan Valsiner
Affiliation:
Aalborg University, Denmark
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 319 - 332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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