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Father-Child Relations - Cultural and Biosocial Contexts (Hardcover, New)
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Father-Child Relations - Cultural and Biosocial Contexts (Hardcover, New)
Series: Foundations of Human Behavior
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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 of paternal roles found in human cultures among various
types of societies that are very peaceful and those that actively
engage in warfare as a mode of existence. "Father-Child Relations"
recognizes the importance of understanding both biological and
cultural aspects of the father's role. Many of the contributors
utilize evolutionary or biosocial models, including those of
developmental psychology, to examine the father's role, while
others rely upon the symbolic analysis of cultural and social
anthropology. One chapter is devoted to male-infant relationships
in nonhuman primates, a further largely ignored comparative
perspective. The anthropologists who have contributed to this
collection are field workers who have lived intimately over
significant periods of time with the people about whom they are
writing. These research reports from the field have been edited to
make them wholly accessible to the non-specialist. The contributors
of this volume recognize that biology and ideology are intertwined;
both together influence the father's behavior and the effects of
his behavior.
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