“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”: Attachment Theory and Multiple Child Care in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India

Seymour, Susan

doi:10.1057/9781137386724_5

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Canadian psychologist Mary Ainsworth (1913Ainsworth ( -1999 developed the "strange situation" procedure in order to observe the variety of attachment styles exhibited between mothers and children (Ainsworth and Bell 1970;Seymour 2013). In the procedure, the behaviors of 100 infants aged between 12 and 18 months were observed using one-way glass in eight situations lasting three minutes each.…”

Section: Attachment Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Key Psychological Theories Can Enrich Our Understanding of Our Ancestors and Help Improve Mental Health for Present and Future Generations: A Family Historian’s Perspective

Parker-Drabble

2021

Genealogy

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Family historians could increase their understanding of their ancestors and themselves and improve the mental health of living and future generations if they consider the psychological history of their forebears. Genealogists could then begin to recognize their family’s unique psychological inheritance that can appear as a result of trauma, depression, or addiction. The author explores three generations of a Parker family branch from Huntingdon/Norfolk, England, to show family historians how such considerations can shed light on their family’s psychological legacy. The author does this by introducing us to her great-grandmother Ann grandfather Walter, and mother Doreen through the lens of attachment theory, and their adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as poverty, bereavement, and addiction. Attachment matters because it affects not only how safe we feel, our ability to regulate our emotions and stress, our adaptability, resilience, and lifelong mental and physical health, but attachment style can also be passed on. In addition, this paper utilizes attachment theory to speculate on the likely attachment styles for the three generations of the Parker family and looks at the possible parenting behavior in the first two, the effect of alcoholism and the intergenerational impact of trauma and depression.

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Section: Attachment Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Key Psychological Theories Can Enrich Our Understanding of Our Ancestors and Help Improve Mental Health for Present and Future Generations: A Family Historian’s Perspective

Parker-Drabble

2021

Genealogy

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“…Crittenden and Marlowe (2013) situate cooperative care, and thus multiple attachments, within a life history framework underscoring the deep evolutionary roots of these care practices. Seymour (2013) contends that multiple attachments are not only normal and widespread, but that they also are culturally and locally contextualized and should be examined as such. Considerations of both the evolutionarily adaptive aspects of multiple attachments and the proximate benefits conferred to both children and adults who are engaged in this kind of care dynamic support the ubiquity and normalcy of this practice.…”

Section: Beyond Anthropology: Cross Disciplinary Ideas About the Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

Theoretical constraints: Science, caretaking, and the creation of normative ideals

Nelson

2021

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives This review explores the dualism in evolutionary anthropology that both acknowledges a broad range of familial caretaking strategies, while also remaining tethered to theories scaffolded around notions of selfish genes that constrain our understanding of who provides adequate kin care. I examine the process of norm creation in the sciences by investigating how theory may limit which data are collected and how those data are interpreted. Methods This paper serves as a literature review and critique of prominent biological, evolutionary, and psychological conceptualizations of parental investment and caretaking in humans, and how these studies shape what is considered normal behavior in scientific literature. Results Quantification, assessment, and theory building in evolutionary anthropology, and an oversampling of WEIRD communities in other disciplines, have limited our understanding of what constitutes both evolutionarily adaptive behaviors, and culturally specific human behaviors. Conclusions A synthetic theoretical model of behavioral norms in childrearing must account for an exchange of psycho‐social and cultural resources and skills, the transfer of energetic reserves via gestation and lactation, and the indirect benefits of genetic inheritance. The emphasis on tailoring data collection to fit evolutionary theories of the family has limited our ability to understand the diverse proximate mechanisms that humans employ in taking care of kin as biocultural reproducers.

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“…It certainly emphasizes the importance of comparative studies as when attachment in infancy and beyond shows the existence of ‘multiple attachments’ of child to caregivers and how cultural contexts help shape adult identity and relationships. 57 To reiterate the point, such cases reveal a complexity that can be carried over to our challenge of attachment-loss ideas when focused on bereavement. A great deal of work still needs to be done in this comparative field, not least when we consider the extensive research that has gone into elaborating Western-style attachment ideas.…”

Section: Dividuality Attachment and Lossmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dividual identity in grief theories, palliative and bereavement care

Davies

2020

Palliat�Care

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Methods: As in life at large, ideas of ‘self’ underlie a great deal of theory and practice in palliative care and in bereavement care, they are frequently implicit, being part of shared cultural assumptions, but may assume a degree of theoretical abstraction when fostered by professionals. This article considers the latter, arguing for an interpretation of ‘self’ influenced by the anthropological notion of dividual or composite personhood and not for that of the autonomous, relatively insular individual typified in much postmodern culture. Results: After depicting both types of personhood, the article explores Western theories of grief typified in the approaches of attachment and loss, continuing bonds with the dead and narrative approaches to identity. Discussion: The dividual approach to personhood then drives a theoretical critique of those grief theories as a means of reflecting upon palliative and bereavement care. Conclusion This alignment of palliative and bereavement care is seen as an entailment of the dividual approach to personhood, while further consequences are raised for analysing memory, dreams and visitations of the dead, as well as providing a potential perspective upon memory loss and the dissonance experienced by relatives of someone who no longer recognizes them.

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“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”: Attachment Theory and Multiple Child Care in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India

Cited by 24 publications

References 9 publications

How Key Psychological Theories Can Enrich Our Understanding of Our Ancestors and Help Improve Mental Health for Present and Future Generations: A Family Historian’s Perspective

How Key Psychological Theories Can Enrich Our Understanding of Our Ancestors and Help Improve Mental Health for Present and Future Generations: A Family Historian’s Perspective

Theoretical constraints: Science, caretaking, and the creation of normative ideals

Dividual identity in grief theories, palliative and bereavement care

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