Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent - Brossura

Small, Meredith

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385483627 ISBN 13: 9780385483629

Casa editrice: Anchor, 1999

Riassunto

An exploration into the new field of ethnopediatrics--the study of how and why parents raise their children the way they do--examines the effects of cultural traditions, which may actually sometimes run contrary to a baby's biological needs. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"So packed with compelling information about parenting practices around the globe that the reader may have trouble putting it down."
--Salon

"Nothing less than a liberation. For too long parents have agonized...that there is one 'right' way to raise an infant. With engaging wit and profound scholarship...Small opens our eyes to the variety of child-care practices in other cultures."
--James Shreeve, author of The Neanderthal Enigma

"Wise, humane and packed with information."
--Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor of anthropology, University of California, Davis.

"In elegant, engaging prose, Meredith Small shows the mother-child relation to be a microcosm of society."
--Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D.

L'autore:

Meredith F. Smaill is a professor of anthropology at Cornell University and the author of Our Babies, Ourselves; What's Love Got to Do with It?; and Female Choices. She writes frequently for Natural History Magazine, Discover, Scientific American, and is a commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

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• Editore: Anchor
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385483627
• ISBN 13: 9780385483629
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336