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Referencesbook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document consists in its entirety of bibliographical citations....Gusii culturebook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
The first part of this study presents a survey of Gusii ethnography, with emphasis on the period of 1907-1974, then turns to an analysis of the homestead (OMOCHIE) as a domestic model of social order and personal success in the society. Additional in...Gusii fertility, marriage, and familybook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article examines in detail the Gusii fertility predicament in Kenya, and attempts to explain how their fertility rate reached and remained at such a high level. In addition, the author discusses why parents want to bear so many children, and wha...Pregnancy and birthbook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is a detailed study of normal pregnancy and birth customs among the Gusii of Southwestern Kenya, with additional data on practices associated with difficult and unusual births (e.g., the birth of twins), on the postpartum care of mother and chil...Infant carebook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
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...Survival and healthbook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
In this study LeVine examines the health and physical growth of Gusii children from birth to approximately four years of age, as outcomes of the caregiving environments in Morongo during the 1970s (p. 194). Customs of infant care reflect an adaptive ...Communication and social learning during infancybook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
Experience and learning begins for Gusii infants, as for all humans, at birth and is culturally organized. Infant psychosocial and behavioral development, though not prominent in Gusii formulation of parental priorities, is culturally shaped even in ...Variations in infant interactionbook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
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 ...