1st Edition
Father-child Relations Cultural and Biosocial Contexts
Edited By Barry S. Hewlett
Copyright 1992
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
395 Pages
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Routledge
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Due to a greater involvement of American fathers in the direct care of their children in recent years, interest in the impact and nature of the father's role in nurturing children has increased. While studies about fathers in the industrialized, literate West have proliferated, little is known about the role of fathers in the preliterate, non-Western world. This collection examines the diversity... Read more
List of Contributors, Introduction, Part I. Dad and Cad Reproductive Strategies: The Biosocial Context of Father's Role, 1. Male-Infant Relationships in Nonhuman Primates: Paternal Investment or Mating Effort?, 2. Paternal Effect on Offspring Survivorship among Ache and Hiwi Hunter-Gatherers: Implications for Modeling Pair-Bond Stability, 3. Paternal Care in a Caribbean Village, 4. Variation in Paternal Care among the Yanomamo, 5. Fatherhood by Rank on Ifaluk, 6. If You Have a Child You Have a Life: Demographic and Cultural Perspectives on Fathering in Old Age in IKung Society, 7. Husband-Wife Reciprocity and the Father-Infant Relationship among Aka Pygmies, 8. Gender Differences in the Perception of Ideal Family Size in an Australian Aborginal Community, Part II. The Cultural Context of Father's Role: Perspectives from Cross-Cultural Human Development and Symbolic Anthropology, 9. The Cultural Foundations of Fathers' Roles: Evidence from Kenya and the United States, 10. Fathers in Children's Environments: A Four Culture Study, 11. Male Care among Efe Foragers and Lese Farmers, 12. Gukwelonone: The Game of Hiding Fathers and Seeking Sons among the Ongee of Little Andaman, 13. Fathering in an Egalitarian Society, 14. Fathers and Childcare among the Cagayan Agta, 15. Perceptions of Parenting among the Nso of Cameroon, 16. Father-Child Relations in Urban China, Author Index, Subject Index
Biography
Barry S. Hewlett
