book chapter

Infant care: cultural norms and interpersonal environment

Child care and culture : lessons from Africa [by] Robert A. LeVine … [et al.] ; with the collaboration of James Caron … [et al • Cambridge [england] • Published In 1994 • Pages: 143-168, 314-315

By: LeVine, Robert Alan, LeVine, Sarah, Leiderman, P. Herbert, Brazelton, T. Berry, Dixon, Suzanne, Richman, Amy, Keefer, Constance H., Caron, James, New, Rebecca Staples, Miller, Patrice, Tronick, Edward, Feigal, David, Yaman, Josephine.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This article is concerned with the manner in which Gusii mothers define infant care -- their shared assumptions about the tasks and standards involved -- and examines the infant's interpersonal environment over the first 30 months of life. Age trends in the infant's social ecology are analyzed in relation to family characteristics and to developmental patterns measured by the Bayley Infant Scales (p. 143).

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Sociocultural trends

Infant feeding

Infant care

Development and maturation

Childhood activities

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Gusii

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

2000

RegionThe area the document pertains to

Africa

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Eastern Africa

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

book chapter

Evaluation

Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Ethnologist

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

John Beierle ; 2005

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1974-1976

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

1950-1976

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Morongo (a pseudonym), southwestern Kenya

NotesAdditional notes

[by] Robert A. LeVine … [et al.] ; with the collaboration of James Caron … [et al.]

For bibliographical references see 6: Levine [et al.]

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

93033584

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Gusii (African people)