A WORLD OF BABIES
Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies
Judy DeLoache and Alma Gottlieb
Cambridge University Press, 2000
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Readers should understand some of the tremendous variety of childrearing perspectives and practices in the world and develop some appreciation of its diversity.
Are babies divine, or do they have the devil in them? Should parents talk to their infants, or is it a waste of time? Answers to questions about the nature and nurture of infants appear in this book as advice to parents in seven world societies. Imagine what Dr. Spock might have written if he were a healer from Bali, or an Aboriginal grandmother from the Australian desert, or a diviner from a rural village in West Africa. As the seven childcare "manuals" in this book reveal, experts worldwide offer intriguingly different advice to new parents. The creative format of this book brings alive a rich fund of ethnographic knowledge, vividly illustrating a simple but powerful truth: there exist many models of babyhood, each shaped by deeply held values and widely varying cultural contexts.
Judy S. DeLoache, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Oxford University, held a Senior International Fellowship from the Fogarty Foundation of NIH, and been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California.
Alma Gottlieb, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of UNDER THE KAPOK TREE: IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE IN BENG THOUGHT and PARALLEL WORDS: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND A WRITER ENCOUNTER AFRICA, which won the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and has edited BLOOD MAGIC: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MENSTRUATION.
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