A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies

by Alma Gottlieb

Book Overview

Should babies sleep alone in cribs, or in bed with parents? Is talking to babies useful, or a waste of time? A World of Babies provides different answers to these and countless other childrearing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521664756
• ISBN13: 9780521664752
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

a wonderful book!

I just finsished this book and loved it! It is very informative, but also creative in it's format. I definatly recommend reading it if you are interested in mother/child/family relationships in various cultures in various points in history.

a great book-refreshing and not boring like other baby care books

this book shows how babies are cared for and in some ways even honoured in seven societies around the world.some manuals are written by family members and others by respected members of the society in question(fictional members of course) this is a good book,a change from other baby books in the sense that it is not boring and it may even give you a few tips on improving your relationship with you child or caring for them better

Informative and Amusing

I loved this book. They took all dryess out of an anthroplogic look at babies in diffrent cultures.

Loved "A World of Babies"

Wonderful perspective(s) on raising kids! DeLoache and Gottlieb have succeeded in making "A world of Babies" amusing, yet there's that serious undercurrent of promoting understanding. I recommend it for young moms and dads -- there are lots of good ways to bring up babies. This grandma enjoyed it tremendously. As my own mom used to say, you can make all kinds of mistakes rearing children, but as long as you give them lots of love they'll turn out fine.