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Exploring the history of pregnancy, birth, and infancy around the world.

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  • February 19, 2015

    Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

    Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

    The majority of ethnographies focus on the culture of adults or verbal children, babies, if considered at all, are described in the context of their relationships to adults and older children. In 2004, Alma Gottlieb published a unique ethnography, The Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa based on Beng people…

  • February 1, 2015

    Infant Care in Taira, Okinawa | 1950-60’s

    Infant Care in Taira, Okinawa | 1950-60’s

    A lot has been said about Okinawan culture in the Attachment Parenting community, let’s set the record straight: from the moms who return to work after a few months maternity leave, to the siblings and grandmothers who strap the baby to their backs as they go about their days, and the hard-knocks school of weaning.

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