| Description |
xvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Child psychology |
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Child psychology.
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| Contents |
Part 1: Cultural Contexts: Residence Patterns and the Environment of Mother-Infant Interaction Among the Navajo / James S. Chisholm -- Social Context in Caregiver-Infant Interaction: A Film Study of Fais and the United States / Anita Miller Sostek, Peter Vietze, Martha Zaslow, Laura Kreiss, Fransje van der Waals and Donald Rubinstein Social Context in Caregiver-Infant Interaction: A Film Study of Fais and the United States Part 2: Cultural and Socioeconomic Status: Mother-Infant Interactions Among Lower SES Black, Cuban, Puerto Rican and South American Immigrants / Tiffany M. Field and Susan M. Widmayer -- Middle Class Differences in the Mother-Child Interaction and the Child's Cognitive Development / Candice Feiring and michael Lewis -- Part 3: Cultural Values: Father-Mother-Infant Interaction in the Newborn Period: A German-American Comparison / Ross D. Parke, Karin Grossmann and Barbara R. Tinsley. -- A Comparison of Anglo, Hopi and Navajo Mothers and Infants / John W. Callaghan -- Maternal Rhythmicity in Three American Cultures / Barbara Fourcher Fajardo and Daniel G. Freedman -- Mother-Infant Interaction Among the Gusii of Kenya / Suzanne Dixon, Edward Tronick, Constance Keefer and T. Berry Brazelton -- Part 4: Growth and Developmental Status of Infants: Infant and Caretaker Behavior as Mediators of Nutritional and Social Intervention in the Barrios of Bogota / Charles M. Super, John Clement, Lea Vuori, Niels Christiansen, Jose O. Mora and M. Guillermo Herrera -- Early Interactions in the Marquesas Islands / Mary Martini and John Kirkpatrick -- Age-Related Changes in Attachment Behavior in Polymatrically Reared Infants: The Kenyan Gusii / Guy Reed and P. Herbert Leiderman -- Part 5: Methodological Considerations: The Cross-Cultural Study of Early Interaction: Implications from Research on Culture and Cognition / Martha Zaslow and Barbara Rogoff |
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Mother-Infant Interactions Among Lower SES Black, Cuban, Puerto Rican and South American Immigrant / Tiffany M. Field and / Susan M. Widmayer |
| Summary |
In the late 1960s, after a period of intense acceleration of the pace of research on human infancy, a number of investigators - some anthropologists, some psychologists, some psychiatrists and paediatricians, and even a few ethologists - developed the conviction that certain contributions to the understanding of infancy would come from, and perhaps only come from, cross-cultural and cross-population studies |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Subject |
Mother and child -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Mother-Child Relations.
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| Author |
Field, Tiffany.
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| LC no. |
81009805 |
| ISBN |
0898590973 |
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