book chapter
Variations in infant interaction: illustrative cases
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: 224-244
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
Gusii parent share a cultural model of child care, but their central tendencies in implementing it do not adequately convey the diversity of environmental conditions in which Gusii infants are raised. To illustrate this diversity the author(s) chose a sample of 28 sets of parents differing in age with infants differing in birth order. From this sample three infants -- Salome, Justin, and Evans -- and their parents were chosen for more intensive study. Factors such as parental relations, the affluence and seniority of the mother, the birth order of the child, the competing demands of work , child care by the mother and older children, and the attachment of infants to the mother are all discussed in regard to their respective roles in the child's personality development.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Daily routine
- Social relationships and groups
- Family relationships
- Infant feeding
- Infant care
- 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
- 1974-1976
- 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)