book chapter
Does culture appreciably affect patterns of infant behavior?
Journal of social psychology • 12 • Published In 1940 • Pages: 305-317
By: Wayne, Dennis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author, who was with the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia at the time he made this study, offers data to corroborate the view that the characteristics of infancy are universal and that culture overlays of modifies a more basic substratum of behavior. Specifically, he studied the behavior of forty-one Navajo and Hopi babies up to one year of age, and compared it with that of a similar group of White American infants. He found that most of the outward differences in the Indian childrens' behavior, such as crying only infrequently, were due to variations in child care rather than a more basic cause. Of particular interest is his examination of the effect of the cradleboard: contrary to popular belief, he found that it did not retard the infant's motor development.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Infant care
- Child care
- Development and maturation
- Cleanliness training
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- 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.
- Psychologist
- 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
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona and New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dennis Wayne
- This document consists of excerpts
- Numbers underlined refer to case histories found on pages 311-314, category 856
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-317)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians