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Title Attachment reconsidered : cultural perspectives on a western theory / edited by Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo
Edition First edition
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]
©2013
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Description 1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations
Series Culture, mind, and society
Culture, mind, and society.
Contents Part I. A framework: Attachment and culture: an introduction / Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo -- chapter 1. The puzzle of attachment: unscrambling maturational and cultural contributions to the development of early emotional bonds / Suzanne Gaskins -- Part II. Caregiving: chapter 2. Cooperative child care among the Hadza: situating multiple attachment in evolutionary context / Alyssa N. Crittenden and Frank W. Marlowe -- chapter 3. Cooperative breeding and attachment among the Aka foragers / Courtney L. Meehan and Sean Hawks -- chapter 4. "It takes a village to raise a child": attachment theory and multiple child care in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India / Susan C. Seymour -- Part III. Autonomy and dependence: chapter 5. Attachment in rural Sri Lanka: the shape of caregiver sensitivity, communication, and autonomy / Bambi L. Chapin -- chapter 6. Attachment and culture in Murik society: learning autonomy and interdependence through kinship, food, and gender / Kathleen Barlow -- Part IV. Childhood-adulthood continuities: chapter 7. Towards a cultural psychodynamics of attachment: Samoa and US comparisons / Jeannette Marie Mageo -- chapter 8. Adult attachment cross-culturally: a reanalysis of the Ifaluk emotion Fago / Naomi Quinn -- Afterword: cross-cultural challenges to attachment theory / Gilda A. Morelli and Paula Ivey Henry
Summary "Attachment theory has massively influenced contemporary psychology, primarily from an American perspective. However, the anthropological criticism of ethnocentrism has wider implications for the discipline of psychology, which often unintentionally introduces psychologists' culturally biased assumptions into theory intended to be general, and is so devoted to culturally decontextualized experimental procedures that fail to challenge this ethnocentrism. Thus the current volume is not only challenge to attachment theorists, but also an object lesson for psychologists of many other stripes. Beyond simply a Euro-American perspective, attachment theory must be contextualized by examining it through local meanings and childrearing practices, along with cultural models of virtue and psychodynamics, all of which are best discovered through ethnography. The contributors expand this critique beyond questions of classification and measurement, to question the cultural assumptions and extend this line of questioning to other ethnocentric concepts"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethnopsychology.
Attachment behavior -- Cross-cultural studies
Attachment behavior.
Cross-cultural studies.
Object Attachment
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Ethnopsychology
ethnopsychology.
The self, ego, identity, personality.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Psychology.
Cross-cultural studies
Attachment behavior
Ethnopsychology
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Quinn, Naomi, editor.
Mageo, Jeannette Marie, 1947- editor
ISBN 9781137386724
113738672X