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Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care Paperback – January 27, 1993
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This systematic study of non-Western fathers' roles in infant care focuses on the Aka pygmies of central Africa
- Print length216 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press
- Publication dateJanuary 27, 1993
- Dimensions6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100472082035
- ISBN-13978-0472082032
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- Publisher : University of Michigan Press (January 27, 1993)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 216 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0472082035
- ISBN-13 : 978-0472082032
- Item Weight : 12.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,321,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,931 in General Anthropology
- #12,648 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
- #24,676 in Women's Studies (Books)
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The scientist visited the human society with the most known infant care by fathers to check on averred universal theories on the father's role in the upbringing of children. (Though a South American society may have escaped the author's attention, of which I do not know the name, unfortunately.) To find out that they are wrong, i.e. NOT universal. Among them are the Western concepts that attachment to fathers universally builds on vigorous play and their punitive role.
Instead he found that the Aka live a different system with near equal contribution to the diet of anatomical females and males, high fertility, lack of warfare and lack violence, especially not against women, a fierce egalitarian ethic and a mobile foraging lifestyle, which does not accumulate material goods. The result of all of these factors contribute to that unusually high infant care by fathers to the benefit of the entire Aka society. On the way the researcher found out, too, that divorce and single parenthood aren't signs of decay of the modern US/Western society, but belong to the human heritage.
This book/edition is not up to date. For example, Neanderhals aren't classified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis anymore, but as Homo neanderthalensis, i.e. a branch further removed from modern humans. The role of hunting large game in the earlier days of humanity has been reduced considerably in the meantime. And it doesn't occur to the author yet to even find out, wether offering their nipples to demanding infants actually involves male lactation, which has been accepted among Western scientists as (easily) existing these days.
Even though, this is a remarkable work. No matter the accumulating dust, limited research frame, non-native (i.e. Western) perspective and writing style burdened with statistics of people's activities, this is a recommendable book. For it broadens the horizons and contributes to the knowledge of ourselves and alternative styles of child-rearing.
You may also be interested in the booklet Kindezi: The KoÌngo art of babysitting and The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses on Westernstyle bias in anthropology of African societies.