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Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary
foundations of children's attachment relationships and on the
consequences for education, counseling, and policy. It is generally
acknowledged that attachment relationships are important for
infants and young children, but there is little clarity on what
exactly constitutes such a relationship. Does it occur between two
individuals (infant-mother or infant-father) or in an extended
network? In the West, monotropic attachment appears to function as
a secure foundation for infants, but is this true in other
cultures? This volume offers perspectives from a range of
disciplines on these questions. Contributors from psychology,
biology, anthropology, evolution, social policy, neuroscience,
information systems, and practice describe the latest research on
the cultural and evolutionary foundations on children's attachment
relationships as well as the implications for education,
counseling, and policy. The contributors discuss such issues as the
possible functions of attachment, including trust and
biopsychological regulation; the evolutionary foundations, if any,
of attachment; ways to model attachment using the tools of
information science; the neural foundations of attachment; and the
influence of cultural attitudes on attachment. Taking an
integrative approach, the book embraces the wide cultural
variations in attachment relationships in humans and their
diversity across nonhuman primates. It proposes research methods
for the culturally sensitive study of attachment networks that will
lead to culturally sensitive assessments, practices, and social
policies. Contributors Kim Bard, Marjorie Beeghly, Allyson J.
Bennett, Yvonne Bohr, David L. Butler, Nandita Chaudhary, Stephen
H. Chen, James B. Chisholm, Lynn A. Fairbanks, Ruth Feldman,
Barbara L. Finlay, Suzanne Gaskins, Valeria Gazzola, Ariane
Gernhardt, Jay Giedd, Alma Gottlieb, Kristen Hawkes, William D.
Hopkins, Johannes Johow, Elfriede Kalcher-Sommersguter, Heidi
Keller, Michael Lamb, Katja Liebal, Cindy H. Liu, Gilda A. Morelli,
Marjorie Murray, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, Naomi Quinn, Mariano
Rosabal-Coto, Dirk Scheele, Gabriel Scheidecker, Margaret A.
Sheridan, Volker Sommer, Stephen J. Suomi, Akira Takada, Douglas M.
Teti, Bernard Thierry, Ross A. Thompson, Akemi Tomoda, Nim
Tottenham, Ed Tronick, Marga Vicedo, Leslie Wang, Thomas S.
Weisner, Relindis D. Yovsi
In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the Great Apes are capable of thinking at symbolic levels, traditionally considered uniquely human. They show these high-level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, imitation, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and proto-culture itself. Here, contributors emphasize the mechanisms involved in building these abilities--especially the lengthy developmental and "enculturation" processes--suggesting changes to current views on how primate and human intelligence have evolved. Researchers and professionals in the fields of primatology, animal behavior, anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive psychology will find much useful information in this book.
What special qualities of mind set the great apes apart from other
nonhuman primates, and indeed from ourselves? In this book, field
and laboratory researchers show that the great apes have high level
abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool
use, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and
culture itself. Great apes are also shown to be capable of thinking
at symbolic levels, traditionally considered to be uniquely human.
Here, the mechanisms involved in building these abilities -
especially the lengthy developmental and 'enculturation' processes
- are emphasized, showing how new discoveries are changing views on
how primates and human intelligence evolved. This book is for
anyone interested in current research and theoretical views of
great ape cognition.
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