Nursing, weaning, and sleeping arrangements affect young children
Order Description
1. How do different attitudes about nursing, weaning, and sleeping arrangements affect young children? How are differences in these practices compatible with the needs of the cultures that employ them? Provide ethnographic examples from our readings as well as examples from your personal experience and/or observations.
2. Compare early ideas about national character studies to current ideas about the intersection of personality and culture. How have ideas about psychology and personality changed since the early days of anthropology?