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Culture, Mind, and Society The Book Series of the Society for Psychological Anthropology The Society for Psychological Anthropology—a section of the American Anthropology Association—and Palgrave Macmillan are dedicated to publishing innovative research in culture and psychology that illuminates the workings of the human mind within the social, cultural, and political contexts that shape thought, emotion, and experience. As anthropologists seek to bridge gaps between ideation and emotion or agency and structure and as psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical anthropologists search for ways to engage with cultural meaning and difference, this interdisciplinary terrain is more active than ever. Series Editor Rebecca J. Lester, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis Editorial Board Linda Garro, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles Catherine Lutz, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Peggy Miller, Departments of Psychology and Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Robert Paul, Department of Anthropology, Emory University Bradd Shore, Department of Anthropology, Emory University Carol Worthman, Department of Anthropology, Emory University Titles in the Series Adrie Kusserow, American Individualisms: Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods Naomi Quinn, editor, Finding Culture in Talk: A Collection of Methods Anna Mansson McGinty, Becoming Muslim: Western Women’s Conversion to Islam Roy D’Andrade, A Study of Personal and Cultural Values: American, Japanese, and Vietnamese Steven M. Parish, Subjectivity and Suffering in American Culture: Possible Selves Elizabeth A. Throop, Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy: Immoral Individualism Victoria Katherine Burbank, An Ethnography of Stress: The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia Karl G. Heider, The Cultural Context of Emotion: Folk Psychology in West Sumatra Jeannette Marie Mageo, Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams Casey High, Ann Kelly, and Jonathan Mair, The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach Kevin K. Birth, Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality Andrew Kipnis, Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche Katie Glaskin and Richard Chenhall, Sleep Around the World: Anthropological Perspectives Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo, editors, Attachment Reconsidered: Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory Attachment Reconsidered C P W T ULTURAL ERSPECTIVES ON A ESTERN HEORY Edited by Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo ISBN 978-1-137-38674-8 ISBN 978-1-137-38672-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137386724 ATTACHMENT RECONSIDERED Copyright © Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo, 2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-38671-7 All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. 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Psychological anthropology is a small if lively and productive fi eld, and one underfunded by comparison with more sizeable and centrally positioned disciplines. Through the Lemelson/SPA Conference Fund, the Robert Lemelson Foundation has made possible a series of conferences on important topics in psychological anthropology, such as the one that culminated in the present volume. Through the Lemelson Student Fellowship Program, the foundation has also supported the initial dissertation fi eld research of multiple cohorts of graduate students working in this area. This foundation has thus become by far the most dependable source of funding for psychological anthropology, playing a tremendous role in nourishing our subdiscipline. For this we are profoundly grateful. We hope that in a small way this dedication expresses our gratitude. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Part I A Framework Attachment and Culture: An Introduction 3 Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo Chapter 1 T he Puzzle of Attachment: Unscrambling Maturational and Cultural Contributions to the Development of Early Emotional Bonds 33 Suzanne Gaskins Part II Caregiving Chapter 2 Cooperative Child Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context 67 Alyssa N. Crittenden and Frank W. Marlowe Chapter 3 C ooperative Breeding and Attachment among the Aka Foragers 85 Courtney L. Meehan and Sean Hawks Chapter 4 “ It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”: Attachment Theory and Multiple Child Care in Alor, Indonesia, and in North India 115 Susan C. Seymour Part III Autonomy and Dependence Chapter 5 Attachment in Rural Sri Lanka: The Shape of Caregiver Sensitivity, Communication, and Autonomy 143 Bambi L. Chapin Chapter 6 A ttachment and Culture in Murik Society: Learning Autonomy and Interdependence through Kinship, Food, and Gender 165 Kathleen Barlow viii Contents Part IV Childhood-Adulthood Continuities Chapter 7 Toward a Cultural Psychodynamics of Attachment: Samoa and US Comparisons 191 Jeannette Marie Mageo Chapter 8 A dult Attachment Cross-culturally: A Reanalysis of the Ifaluk Emotion Fago 215 Naomi Quinn Afterword: Cross-cultural Challenges to Attachment Theory 241 Gilda A. Morelli and Paula Ivey Henry Notes on Contributors 251 Index 255 Illustrations Figures 3.1 Mean frequency of maternal holding, touching, and proximity 94 3.2 Mean frequency of maternal physical contact and access 94 3.3 Mean frequency of allomaternal holding, touching, and proximity 95 3.4 Mean frequency of allomaternal physical contact and access 95 3.5 Relationship between child distress and allomaternal sensitivity during mother-child separation 105 Tables 3.1 Sample description 92 3.2 Child attachment bouts, mean number of responders, and percentage of attachment bouts directed toward mothers, fathers, adult allomothers, and juvenile allomothers 97 3.3 Component loadings for responses to attachment behaviors 100 3.4 Mean component scores for mothers and allomothers 100 3.5 The percentage of child responses to their mother in the first minute and the first three minutes following a separation 103 3.6 The percentage of maternal responses to their child in the first minute and the first three minutes following a separation 104 5.1 Sinhala model of hierarchically ranked relationships 151
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