Attachment Reconsidered

Kathleen Barlow, Central Washington University, USABambi L. Chapin, University of Maryland, USAAlyssa Crittenden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USASuzanne Gaskins, Northeastern Illinois University, USASean Hawks, Washington State University, USAPaula Ivey Henry, Harvard School of Public Health, USAFrank W. Marlowe, University of Cambridge, UKCourtney Meehan, Washington State University, USAGilda Morelli, Boston College, USASusan Seymour, Pitzer College, USA

• PART I: A FRAMEWORK Introduction: Situating and Summarizing Our Critiques; Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Mageo 1. The Puzzle of Attachment: Unscrambling Maturational and Cultural Contributions to the Development of Early Emotional Bonds; Suzanne Gaskins PART II: CAREGIVING 2. Cooperative Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context; Alyssa N. Crittenden and Frank W. Marlowe 3. Cooperative Breeding and Attachment in Early Childhood: A Case Study Among the Aka Foragers; Courtney L. Meehan and Sean Hawks 4. 'It Takes a Village to Raise A Child': Attachment Theory and Multiple Childcare in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India; Susan Seymour PART III: AUTONOMY AND DEPENDENCE 5. Childcare, Dependency, and Autonomy in a Sri Lankan Village: Enculturation of and through Attachment Relationships; Bambi L. Chapin 6. Attachment and Culture in Murik Society; Kathleen Barlow PART IV: CHILDHOOD-ADULT CONTINUITIES 7. Towards a Cultural Psychodynamics of Attachment; Jeannette Mageo 8. Adult Attachment Cross-Culturally: A Reanalysis of the Ifaluk Emotion Fago; Naomi Quinn Afterword; Gilda A. Morelli and Paula Ivey Henry

"A richer, more contextualized rethinking of attachment theory. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries." - CHOICE"Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo have guided the development of a stunning interdisciplinary book! Attachment Reconsidered challenges exclusive attention to the mother-infant bond in classical attachment theory and the universal applicability of a single measuring instrument, the Strange Situation. For example, systematic natural observation reveals that, for Aka children, it is the sensitivity of nonmaternal rather than maternal care that determines their degree of distress during separation from their mothers." - Patricia M. Greenfield, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA