Research Catalog

Title

Attachment reconsidered : cultural perspectives on a western theory / edited by Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo.

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Quinn, Naomi
• Mageo, Jeannette Marie, 1947-

Description

viii, 261 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Culture, mind, and society

Uniform Title

Culture, mind, and society.

Subjects

• PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
• Attachment behavior > Cross-cultural studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
• Ethnopsychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Attachment and Culture : An Introduction / Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo -- The Puzzle of Attachment : Unscrambling Maturational and Cultural Contributions to the Development of Early Emotional Bonds / Suzanne Gaskins -- Cooperative Child Care among the Hadza : Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context / Alyssa N. Crittenden and Frank W. Marlowe -- Cooperative Breeding and Attachment Among the Aka Foragers / Courtney L. Meehan and Sean Hawks -- "It Takes a Village to Raise A Child" : Attachment Theory and Multiple Child Care in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India / Susan C. Seymour -- Attachment in Rural Sri Lanka: The Shape of Caregiver Sensitivity, Communication, and Autonomy / Bambi L. Chapin -- Attachment and Culture in Murik Society : Learning Autonomy and Interdependence through Kinship, Food, and Gender / Kathleen Barlow -- Toward a Cultural Psychodynamics of Attachment : Samoa and US Comparisons / Jeannette Marie Mageo -- Adult Attachment Cross-Culturally : A Reanalysis of the Ifaluk Emotion Fago / Naomi Quinn -- Afterword : Cross-cultural Challenges to Attachment Theaory / Gilda A. Morelli and Paula Ivey Henry.

Call Number

JFE 14-3361

ISBN

• 9781137386717 (hc)
• 1137386711 (hc)
• 9781137386748 (pbk.)
• 1137386746 (pbk.)

LCCN

2013031114

OCLC

874838514

Title

Attachment reconsidered : cultural perspectives on a western theory / edited by Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Culture, mind, and society

Culture, mind, and society.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Quinn, Naomi, editor.

Mageo, Jeannette Marie, 1947- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-3361