Catalogue by countries / A world of babies. Imagined childcare guides for seven societies
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| ISS/IRC Code | TOOL-PRACTICE ENG-006 |
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| Title | A world of babies. Imagined childcare guides for seven societies |
| Author | DELOACHE Judy |
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| Date published/issue | 00-00-2000 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press The Edinburg Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU |
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| Page | 280 |
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| ISBN | 0 521 66264 8 |
| Type of material | Book |
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AUSTRALIA INDONESIA TURKEY UNITED STATES |
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Family-origin Child-care |
| Free text | Study on childcare which includes etnographic research of seven societies. This book emphasizes that people living in different parts of the world and at different historical times hold diverse beliefs about the nature and the nurturing of infants. The chapters are :If Dr. Spock were born in Bali: raising a world of babies ; A parenting manual, with words of advice for puritan mothers (on Puritans of Seventeeth-century Massachusetts) ; Luring your child into this life: a Beng path for infant care (Ivory Coast - West Africa) ; Gift from the gods : a balinese guide to early child rearing ; Making babies in a Turkish village ; Infants of the dreaming : a Walpiri guide to child care (an Australian aborigine group) ; The view from Wuro : a guide to child rearing for Fulani Parents (West and Central Africa) ; Never leave your little one alone : raising an Ifaluk Child (Micronesia). |
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