Attachment reconsidered : cultural perspectives on a western theory / edited by Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo.

"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 assump...

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Uniform Title:Culture, mind, and society.
Other Authors: Quinn, Naomi (Editor)
Mageo, Jeannette Marie, 1947- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Culture, mind, and society.
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Physical Description:viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Attachment and Culture: An Introduction / Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo
  • The Puzzle of Attachment: Unscrambling Maturational and Cultural Contributions to the Development of Early Emotional Bonds / Suzanne Gaskins
  • Cooperative Child Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context / Alyssa N. Crittenden and Frank W. Marlowe
  • Cooperative Breeding and Attachment Among the Aka Foragers / Courtney L. Meehan and Sean Hawks
  • "It Takes a Village to Raise A Child": Attachment Theory and Multiple Child Care in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India / Susan C. Seymour
  • Attachment in Rural Sri Lanka: The Shape of Caregiver Sensitivity, Communication, and Autonomy / Bambi L. Chapin
  • Attachment and Culture in Murik Society: Learning Autonomy and Interdependence through Kinship, Food, and Gender / Kathleen Barlow
  • Toward a Cultural Psychodynamics of Attachment: Samoa and US Comparisons / Jeannette Marie Mageo
  • Adult Attachment Cross-Culturally: A Reanalysis of the Ifaluk Emotion Fago / Naomi Quinn
  • Afterword: Cross-cultural Challenges to Attachment Theaory / Gilda A. Morelli and Paula Ivey Henry.