Attachment reconsidered: cultural perspectives on a western theory

Part I. A framework: Attachment and culture: an introduction / Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageo

chapter 1. The puzzle of attachment: unscrambling maturational and cultural contributions to the development of early emotional bonds / Suzanne Gaskins

Part II. Caregiving: chapter 2. Cooperative child care among the Hadza: situating multiple attachment in evolutionary context / Alyssa N. Crittenden and Frank W. Marlowe

chapter 3. Cooperative breeding and attachment among the Aka foragers / 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 / Susan C. Seymour

Part III. Autonomy and dependence: chapter 5. Attachment in rural Sri Lanka: the shape of caregiver sensitivity, communication, and autonomy / Bambi L. Chapin

chapter 6. Attachment and culture in Murik society: learning autonomy and interdependence through kinship, food, and gender / Kathleen Barlow

Part IV. Childhood-adulthood continuities: chapter 7. Towards a cultural psychodynamics of attachment: Samoa and US comparisons / Jeannette Marie Mageo

chapter 8. Adult attachment cross-culturally: a reanalysis of the Ifaluk emotion Fago / Naomi Quinn

Afterword: cross-cultural challenges to attachment theory / Gilda A. Morelli and Paula Ivey Henry.