Attachment reconsidered : cultural perspectives on a western theory /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:	viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Culture, mind, and society Culture, mind, and society.
Subject:	Ethnopsychology. Attachment behavior -- Cross-cultural studies. Attachment behavior. Ethnopsychology. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9918151

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Other authors / contributors:	Quinn, Naomi, editor of compilation. Mageo, Jeannette Marie, editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9781137386717 (hc) 1137386711 (hc) 9781137386748 (pbk.) 1137386746 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 assumptions into theory intended to be general, and is so devoted to culturally decontextualized experimental procedures that fail to challenge this ethnocentrism. Thus the current volume is not only challenge to attachment theorists, but also an object lesson for psychologists of many other stripes. Beyond simply a Euro-American perspective, attachment theory must be contextualized by examining it through local meanings and childrearing practices, along with cultural models of virtue and psychodynamics, all of which are best discovered through ethnography. The contributors expand this critique beyond questions of classification and measurement, to question the cultural assumptions and extend this line of questioning to other ethnocentric concepts"--

Table of Contents:

Part I. A Framework
Introduction: Situating and Summarizing Our Critiques
1. The Puzzle of Attachment: Unscrambling Maturational and Cultural Contributions to the Development of Early Emotional Bonds
Part II. Caregiving
2. Cooperative Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context
3. Cooperative Breeding and Attachment in Early Childhood: A Case Study Among the Aka Foragers
4. 'It Takes a Village to Raise A Child': Attachment Theory and Multiple Childcare in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India
Part III. Autonomy And Dependence
5. Childcare, Dependency, and Autonomy in a Sri Lankan Village: Enculturation of and through Attachment Relationships
6. Attachment and Culture in Murik Society
Part IV. Childhood-Adult Continuities
7. Towards a Cultural Psychodynamics of Attachment
8. Adult Attachment Cross-Culturally: A Reanalysis of the Ifaluk Emotion Fago
Afterword

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