A WORLD OF BABIES
Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies
Judy DeLoache and Alma Gottlieb
Cambridge University Press, 2000
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand some of the tremendous variety of childrearing perspectives and practices in the world
• Develop an appreciation of its diversity
• Learn aspects of the nature and nurture of infants in seven world societies
• Gain an ethnographic knowledge of the many models of babyhood, each shaped by deeply held values and widely varying cultural contexts
Judy S. DeLoache, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Oxford University, held a Senior International Fellowship from the Fogarty Foundation of NIH, and been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California.
Alma Gottlieb, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of UNDER THE KAPOK TREE: IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE IN BENG THOUGHT and PARALLEL WORDS: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND A WRITER ENCOUNTER AFRICA, which won the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and has edited BLOOD MAGIC: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MENSTRUATION.
6 CE Credits; 220 pages
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