Multiple Caretaking of Infants and Young Children: An Area in Critical Need of a Feminist Psychological Anthropology

Seymour, Susan

doi:10.1525/eth.2004.32.4.538

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“…Some notable recent works on the theme of relational or collectivist versus individualist modes of personhood include Gammeltoft (, 7–28, 225–35); Glaskin (); Ikeuchi (); Manago and Greenfield (); Sahlins (, 10–15); and Seymour (); among many others. Lamb () is one earlier piece examining competing relational and individualist notions of personhood in anthropological studies of South Asia.…”

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Being Single in India: Gendered Identities, Class Mobilities, and Personhoods in Flux

Lamb¹

2018

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This article explores the stories of single women living in the urban metropolis of Kolkata, and in smaller towns and villages of West Bengal, as a means to illuminate emerging possibilities and constraints of selfhood for women in contemporary India. In so doing, the piece examines the ways gendered identities intersect with other forces and ideals at stake, including the institution of heterosexual marriage, class mobilities, and values surrounding individualist versus relational personhood. Because they are positioned outside the norm, those who live singly offer an unusually insightful perspective on their wider society's values and institutions. In these ways, the narratives of three single women and others each illuminate their tellers’ intricate subjectivities as well as offer broader social‐cultural critique. Their stories reveal the ambiguity, painful consequences, and sometimes hopefulness surrounding the “choice” to be single for women and suggest that social recognition and belonging are even more important than independence and true singlehood in the lives of those who live outside marriage in India. [belonging, class, gender, self, sexuality, marriage]

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Being Single in India: Gendered Identities, Class Mobilities, and Personhoods in Flux

Lamb¹

2018

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“…These children describe themselves as having “multiple mamás” (multiple mothers), including their grandmother caregivers, but also their aunts and other female kin who play an important role in their lives (see, e.g. Seymour ). If migrant imaginaries are formed out of experiences of loss, separation, and distance (Schmidt Camacho ), children reestablish new emotional connections that change the meaning of “family” and their subjective experiences of family relationships over time (Fog Olwig ).…”

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“Quiero ir y no quiero ir” (I Want to Go and I Don't Want to Go): Nicaraguan Children's Ambivalent Experiences of Transnational Family Life

Yarris

2014

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m e n Este artículo explora las experiencias de los niños nicaragüenses cuyas madres han migrado. Utilizo la idea del "imaginario del migrante" (Jackson 2008) como marco teórico para capturar la manera en que las experiencias subjetivas que los niños tienen de la migración, son estructuradas por procesos sociales, culturales, políticos y económicos. Demuestro que los niños son actores centrales en procesos mundiales de migración (Coe et al. 2011). Conscientes de los factores (principalmente económicos) que empujan a sus madres a emigrar, los niños participan del proceso como receptores de las remesas en niveles materiales y afectivos, forman vínculos relacionales con sus abuelas y otras cuidadoras ante la ausencia de sus madres, y responden con incertidumbre a la posibilidad de reunificación con sus madres migrantes en países de destino. El deseo ambivalente de los niños de estar tanto "aquí" como "allá" (Hondagneu-Sotelo y Avila 1997) -tanto en Nicaragua con sus familias extendidas como con sus madres viviendo afuera -es central en el imaginario que los niños tienen de la migración y en su experiencia real de formar parte de una familia transnacional. [migración, Nicaragua, niños] A b s t r a c tThis article explores the experiences of Nicaraguan children of migrant mothers using the framework of the migrant imaginary (Jackson 2008) in order to capture the ways children's subjective experiences of migration are structured by broader social-cultural and political-economic dynamics. I demonstrate that children are central actors in global migration processes (Coe et al. 2011): keenly aware of the (primarily economic) factors pushing their mothers to migrate, children engage with remittances on 284J o u r n a l o f L a t i n A m e r i c a n a n d C a r i b b e a n A n t h r o p o l o g y

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“…Still frequently absent in contemporary studies of children's development is attention to the mutual influences among the multiple and diverse social contexts that form children's life conditions (Lewis and Watson-Gegeo 2004;Seymour 2004;cf. Brison 2009;Fong 2007).…”

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“…In a recent Ethos article Susan Seymour (2004) draws on examples of multiple child care practices to challenge Western theories of child development that uphold exclusive mothering as essential to a child's well-being. She is one of several scholars who in recent decades have criticized how the mother-child relationship is typically foregrounded in research as the single most important relationship in the child's life and shown that this focus overshadows other relationships constitutive of both child development and family (see also Burman 1994;Haavind 1987;James et al 1998;Thorne 1987).…”

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Researching Family through the Everyday Lives of Children across Home and Day Care in Denmark

Kousholt

2011

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In this article I investigate family as an everyday life context and conflictual community. My starting point is an exploration of children's lives across their day care and home settings. Children's development is theorized in relation to their participation in and engagements with different communities across multiple contexts. I show that parenting is shaped by children's participation in these varied settings. I draw on an ethnographically inspired research project with six families living in a small town in Denmark. The analysis highlights how children's possibilities for participation are created across their different life contexts and it demonstrates that social interplay and conflicts among children in their day care institutions influence relations and interactions between parents and children at home. I argue that adequate theories of child development must take into account that children's developmental possibilities are shaped by the relations and connections among the contexts in which they live.

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Multiple Caretaking of Infants and Young Children: An Area in Critical Need of a Feminist Psychological Anthropology

Cited by 36 publications

References 71 publications

Being Single in India: Gendered Identities, Class Mobilities, and Personhoods in Flux

Being Single in India: Gendered Identities, Class Mobilities, and Personhoods in Flux

“Quiero ir y no quiero ir” (I Want to Go and I Don't Want to Go): Nicaraguan Children's Ambivalent Experiences of Transnational Family Life

Researching Family through the Everyday Lives of Children across Home and Day Care in Denmark

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