Summary
Lucienne Strivay: Wild Children
Why do children who are said to have been adopted by animals, to have survived the trauma of complete isolation in nature or long-term captivity, cause so much interest? Why, for example, does today's press try to talk about cases of maltreatment or marginalization of children as if they were wild children, while anthropologists seem to be no longer interested in this? The wild child was not always and everywhere talked about. Especially in the West during two or three centuries (from the 16th to the 18th), the wild child was at the center of research into the nature of man, his senses, position, survival, the necessity of social life, his spirit and language.
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