Culture and Early Interactions (Psychology Revivals) [Paperback]

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.

This book, originally published in 1981, represents part of the first fruit of that conviction, and its impressive range of chapters justifies not only the belief itself but also the several rationales behind it.

Melvin Konner Foreword.  Preface.  Part 1: Cultural Contexts  1. James S. Chisholm Residence Patterns and the Environment of MotherInfant Interaction Among the Navajo  2. Anita Miller Sostek, Peter Vietze, Martha Zaslow, Laura Kreiss, Fransje van der Waals and Donald Rubinstein Social Context in CaregiverInfant Interaction: A Film Study of Fais and the United States  Part 2: Cultural and Socioeconomic Status  3. Tiffany M. Field and Susan M. Widmayer MotherInfant Interactions Among Lower SES Black, Cuban, Puerto Rican and South American Immigrants  4. Candice Feiring and Michael Lewis Middle Class Differences in the MotherChild Interaction and the Childs Cognitive Development  Part 3: Cultural Values  5. Ross D. Parke, Karin Grossmann and Barbara R. Tinsley FatherMotherInfant Interaction in the Newborn Period: A GermanAmerican Comparison  6. John W. Callaghan A Comparison of Anglo, Hopi and Navajo Mothers and Infants  7. Barbara FoulSx