Child Care and Culture
Lessons from Africa
£36.99
- Authors:
- Robert A. Levine, Harvard University, Massachusetts
- Sarah Levine, University of California, San Diego
- Suzanne Dixon, Harvard University, Massachusetts
- Amy Richman, Work-Family Directions, Inc.
- P. Herbert Leiderman, Stanford University School of Medicine, California
- Constance H. Keefer, Harvard Medical School
- T. Berry Brazelton, Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts
- Date Published: January 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521575461
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Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, revealing patterns unanticipated by current theories of child development and raising provocative questions about 'normal' child care in the human species. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya, whose practices were intensively observed from the combined perspectives of social anthropology, pediatrics, and developmental psychology, with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities create differing conditions for early childhood development.
Read more- LeVine is reknowned psychological anthropologist
- Offers a compelling look at practices of parenthood and infant care in other cultures
- Highly topical subject, a great deal of interest in children, and how they are raised
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- Date Published: January 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521575461
- length: 380 pages
- dimensions: 231 x 155 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.529kg
- contains: 45 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword
List of tables and figures
Preface
Part I. African Infancy: Frameworks For Understanding:
1. The comparative study of child care
2. Infant care in subsaharan Africa
Part II. Parenthood Among The Gusii of Kenya:
3. Gusii culture: A person-centered perspective
4. Gusii fertility, marriage, and family
5. Pregnancy and birth: Part III. Infant Care and Development in a Gusii Community:
6. Infant care: Cultural norms and interpersonal environment
7. Survival and health: The priorities of parents
8. Communication and social learning during infancy
9. Variations in infant interaction: Illustrative cases: Part IV. Interpretations:
10. Early child development in an African context: Comparative lessons
Appendices
References.
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