Attachment Reconsidered

1. Front Matter

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2. A Framework

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Attachment and Culture: An Introduction

      • Naomi Quinn, Jeannette Marie Mageo

      Pages 3-32

   3. The Puzzle of Attachment: Unscrambling Maturational and Cultural Contributions to the Development of Early Emotional Bonds

      • Suzanne Gaskins

      Pages 33-64

3. Caregiving

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Cooperative Child Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context

      • Alyssa N. Crittenden, Frank W. Marlowe

      Pages 67-83

   3. Cooperative Breeding and Attachment among the Aka Foragers

      • Courtney L. Meehan, Sean Hawks

      Pages 85-113

   4. “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”: Attachment Theory and Multiple Child Care in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India

      • Susan C. Seymour

      Pages 115-139

4. Autonomy and Dependence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Attachment in Rural Sri Lanka: The Shape of Caregiver Sensitivity, Communication, and Autonomy

      • Bambi L. Chapin

      Pages 143-163

   3. Attachment and Culture in Murik Society: Learning Autonomy and Interdependence through Kinship, Food, and Gender

      • Kathleen Barlow

      Pages 165-188

5. Childhood-Adulthood Continuities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Toward a Cultural Psychodynamics of Attachment: Samoa and US Comparisons

      • Jeannette Marie Mageo

      Pages 191-214

   3. Adult Attachment Cross-culturally: A Reanalysis of the Ifaluk Emotion Fago

      • Naomi Quinn

      Pages 215-239

6. Afterword: Cross-cultural Challenges to Attachment Theory

   1. Afterword: Cross-cultural Challenges to Attachment Theory

      • Gilda A. Morelli, Paula Ivey Henry

      Pages 241-249

7. Back Matter

   Pages 251-261

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Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis for understanding human development.

• childhood
• emotion
• psychology

"A richer, more contextualized rethinking of attachment theory. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries." - CHOICE

"Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo have guided the development of a stunning interdisciplinary book! Attachment Reconsidered challenges exclusive attention to the mother-infant bond in classical attachment theory and the universal applicability of a single measuring instrument, the Strange Situation. For example, systematic natural observation reveals that, for Aka children, it is the sensitivity of nonmaternal rather than maternal care that determines their degree of distress during separation from their mothers." - Patricia M. Greenfield, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Kathleen Barlow, Central Washington University, USA Bambi L. Chapin, University of Maryland, USA Alyssa Crittenden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Suzanne Gaskins, Northeastern Illinois University, USA Sean Hawks, Washington State University, USA Paula Ivey Henry, Harvard School of Public Health, USA Frank W. Marlowe, University of Cambridge, UK Courtney Meehan, Washington State University, USA Gilda Morelli, Boston College, USA Susan Seymour, Pitzer College, USA

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