A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies
by Judy S. Deloache, Alma Gottlieb
This book imagines childcare guides from seven societies, illustrating how culture influences infant care practices. Judy S. Deloache and Alma Gottlieb use anthropological expertise to create these fictional manuals, prompting reflection on global parenting variations and challenging readers' own assumptions.
About This Book
A World of Babies presents fictional childcare manuals crafted as if from seven different societies around the world. Through this creative approach, the book highlights how cultural norms shape early childhood practices.
Authors Judy S. Deloache and Alma Gottlieb draw on anthropological insights to construct these imagined guides, offering a window into varied traditions of nurturing infants.
The work encourages readers to reflect on their own cultural assumptions about parenting by contrasting them with these diverse, hypothetical scenarios.
Available as a used book in good condition, it serves as an accessible entry into cross-cultural studies of child development.
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