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| Title: | Childrearing & Infant Care Issues
: A Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| Author: | Pranee Liamputtong (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600216102 : 9781600216107 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos & tables |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 291 |
| Weight: | .904 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - January 2007 |
| List Price: | 85.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Parenthood: Ethnography |
Child-rearing practices in every society occur in accordance with the cultural norms of the society. In most societies, however, child-rearing practices share a common value: the preservation of life and maintenance of the health and well-being of a new-born infant. In this volume, the authors bring together salient issues regarding cultural beliefs and practices and social issues regarding infant care and child-rearing and infant feeding practices as well as early motherhood in different societies. They show that traditional practices surrounding infant care and child-rearing continue to live despite the fact that many societies have been modernised.
Preface; On Child-rearing and Infant Care: A Cross-Cultural Perspective; Kinship and Child-rearing in Two African Societies: A Comparative Investigation of the Orring and the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria; Night-Time Infant Care: Cultural Practice, Evolution, and Infant Development; Cultural Beliefs and Traditional Health Practices in the Context of War, Population Displacement and Social Disruption: The Examples of "Ebino" and "Tea-Tea" in Northern Uganda; Child-rearing Practices and Parental Values in an Indigenous Sami Population in Northern Norway: A Cross-Cultural Comparison; Child-rearing Practices Among Primary Caregivers of HIV-Infected Children Aged 0-5 Years in Chiang Mai, Thailand; Women's Work and Weaning: A Case Study from Periurban Kathmandu, Nepal; Sex Work and Unplanned Infants in Highlands Papua, Indonesia; Beliefs about Pregnancy, Childbearing and New-born Infants in a Rural District in Northern Malawi; Starting Out: The 'Omugwo' Practice and Instilling the Rudiments of Child-rearing in Mothers among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria; The Role of Tamang Grandmothers in Perinatal Care, Makwanpur District, Nepal; Maternity and Identity Among Ethnically Indian Immigrant Women in Melbourne, Australia; Baby, Souls, Name and Health: Traditional and changed Rituals for a New-born Infant among Hmong Immigrant Mothers in Australia; Cultural Conceptions of Infant Health and Development Among Bolivian Immigrant Mothers in Italy; Sites of Conflict and Accommodation: Child-rearing Values and Practices in Vietnamese-Australian Families with Young Children; Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices Among Afghan Women Living in Melbourne, Australia; Index.
