Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
Written for parents and science lovers alike, this is the first book to explore to what degree the way we parent our infants is based on our biological needs and to what degree it is based on culture--and the startling consequences ignoring nature's imperatives can have on the well-being of our...
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Written for parents and science lovers alike, this is the first book to explore to what degree the way we parent our infants is based on our biological needs and to what degree it is based on culture--and the startling consequences ignoring nature's imperatives can have on the well-being of our children. 336 pp.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780385483629 (0385483627)
ASIN: 9780385483629
Publish date: 28-05-1999
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
I think this was probably pretty groundbreaking when it came out, but most of the content is fairly well-known information by now. It also has a bit of a judgemental tone...and that's coming from someone who's pretty on board with the author's message.
I read this for an anthropology class at my university. Although I'm many many years away from parenting, I consider reading it a paradigm-shifting moment. I have so many ideas now about how I want to raise my children. And although I try not to be a proselytizing student of anthropology, I cringe w...
I read this book when my kids were really small. It didn't give me a lot of advice or insight into how to be a parent but was it ever interesting! The anthropologist's perspective on this topic was different from anything I had read and I learned a lot about humans.
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