Originally posted to parent-l:

OK, folks, here is a partial list of things that have been written by
anthropologists talking about child rearing (esp. bf) in other cultures:

Bond, J. et al.  1981
Infant and Child Feeding.  New York: Academic Press.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (editor) 1987
Child Survival: Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and
Maltreatment of Children.  Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishers.

Raphael, Dana (editor) 1979
Breastfeeding and Food Policy in a Hungry World.  New York: Academic Press.

Hull, V. and M. Simpson (editors) 1985
Breastfeeding, Child Health, and Child Spacing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.
London: Croom Helm.

Marshall, Leslie (editor) 1985
Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific.  New York: Gordon and Breach
Science Publishers.

Mayer, P. 1970
Socialization: The Approach from Social Anthropology.  London: Tavistock.

Curran, H. 1984
Nigerian Children: Developmental Perspectives.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Popkin, B. et al. 1986
The Infant-Feeding Triad: Infant, Mother, and Household.  New York: Gordon
and Breach Science Publishers.

Korbin, Jill (editor) 1981
Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.  Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press.  Even though this sounds depressing, there is a lot of
good descriptive detail about regular child rearing practices, as well as
though few parents who neglect their children.  There is also discussion of
how many Western child-rearing practices are considered "abuse and neglect"
by people in other cultures (esp. solitary sleeping and lack of physical
contact).

Gelles, R.J. and J.B. Lancaster (editors) 1987
Child Abuse and Neglect: Biosocial Dimensions.  New York: Aldine de Gruyter.


There are also, of course, hundreds of articles in the professional
anthropological journals.

And finally, I suggest a book by Joseph C. Pearce titled "Evolution's End:
Toward and Intelligence of the Heart," published in 1992 by Harper of San
Francisco.  He includes many of the same sentiments of Jean Liedloff's work,
again with some strange stuff thrown in.

Hope this keeps you busy for the rest of the summer!  See y'all later.  I'm
off to the library to try to find that article on mentally retarded children.
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Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
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Specialist in infant feeding and growth