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Parental behavior in diverse societies

Title
Parental behavior in diverse societies / Robert A. LeVine, editor ; Patrice M. Miller, editor ; Mary Maxwell West, editor.
Publication
San Francisco ; London : Jossey-Bass, ©1988.

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Additional Authors
  • LeVine, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1932-
  • Miller, Patrice M.
  • West, Mary Maxwell
Description
128 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Series Statement
  • New directions for child development, 0195-2269 ; no. 40
  • Paperback sourcebooks in the Jossey-Bass social and behavioral sciences series
Uniform Title
  • New directions for child development ; no. 40.
  • Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series
Subject
  • Father and child > Cross-cultural studies
  • Mother and child > Cross-cultural studies
  • Parent and child > Cross-cultural studies
  • Child psychology > Cross-cultural studies
  • Child development > Cross-cultural studies
  • Manners and customs
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Child rearing
  • Parent and child
  • Parenting
  • Maternal Behavior
  • Paternal Behavior
  • Cultural Characteristics
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Parenting
  • Child Rearing
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • customs (social concepts)
  • 80.70 educational practice
  • Manners and customs
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Child rearing
  • Child development
  • Child psychology
  • Father and child
  • Mother and child
  • Parent and child
  • Eltern
  • Kind
  • Kulturvergleich
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Elternverhalten
  • Ouderschap
  • Opvoedingsmethoden
Genre/Form
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Intercultural comparisons (form)
Note
  • "Summer 1988."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Human parental care : universal goals, cultural strategies, individual behavior / Robert A. LeVine -- Parental values and behavior in the outer Fiji Islands / Mary Maxwell West -- Parental strategies among the Gusii of Kenya / Robert A. LeVine, Sarah E. LeVine -- Fertility, infant feeding, and change in Yucatán / Gail A. Howrigan -- Parental goals and Italian infant care / Rebecca Staples New -- The socialization of infants in suburban Boston / Amy L. Richman, Patrice M. Miller, Margaret Johnson Solomon -- Parenthood and infancy in Sweden / Barbara Welles-Nystrom -- Maternal behavior to infants in five cultures / Amy L. Richman [and others] -- Cross-cultural differences in childrearing goals / Lois Wladis Hoffman.
ISBN
  • 1555429157
  • 9781555429157
LCCN
85644581
OCLC
  • ocm18339352
  • 18339352
  • SCSB-1749352
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library