Child Care and Culture

Download or read book Child Care and Culture written by Robert A. Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, revealing patterns unanticipated by current theories of child development and raising provocative questions about 'normal' child care in the human species. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya, whose practices were intensively observed from the combined perspectives of social anthropology, pediatrics, and developmental psychology, with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities create differing conditions for early childhood development.