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LeVine, Robert Alan was born on March 27, 1932 in New York City. Son of Aaron and Emily (Fried) LeVine.
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Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, revealing patterns unanticipated by current theories of child development and raising provocative questions about the concept of "normal" child care. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities create differing conditions for early childhood development. Combining the perspectives of social anthropology, pediatrics, and developmental psychology, the authors demonstrate how child care customs can be responsive to varied socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural conditions without inflicting harm on children. This text will be of interest to researchers in child development and anthropology.
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This book on the socialization of the child in diverse cultures focuses on parent-child relationships, enculturation, and child development under changing educational conditions. Twelve articles originally published by the author and his colleagues beetween 1960 and 1996 show the evolution not only in LeVine's thinking but in the field as a whole. These articles are supplemented by new commentaries written for this volume. LeVine examines intersections among patterns of childhood experience, cultural values and institutional change in developing societies during the 20th century. Individual chapters include a focus on Kenya, Nigeria and Mexico; parenting, the child's acquisition of culture, and the impact of mass schooling on maternal care; and critiques of psychoanalysis, environmentalism and the psychology of individual differences. In the introduction, LeVine frames his research on the comparative study of socialization as an "anthropology of educational processes" that integrates knowledge on the educational aspects of childhood in human societies under varied historical conditions. This far-reaching book will be widely welcomed by scholars of comparative education and of child development. Robert A. LeVine has had a distinguished academic career which has included decades of teaching and research at Harvard University, USA. He has made seminal contributions to the fields of anthropology and education, with particular emphasis on child development in diverse cultures. During 2001 and 2002, he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong.
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2ND EDITION: This new edition of Culture, Behavior, and Personality is organized into five parts. Part I defines the field of inquiry, Part II presents a critical review of existing theories and methods, Part III expounds LeVine's unique Darwinian model of culture and personality, Part IV deals with the strategies and methods with which to study individual dispositions within the sociocultural matrix, Part V concludes with two essays on cultural and personality research including new advances and avenues of research that have appeared within the last seven years.
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This new edition of Culture, Behavior, and Personality is organized into ve parts. Part I de nes the eld of inquiry, Part II presents a critical review of existing theories and methods, Part III expounds LeVine's unique Darwinian model of culture and personality, Part IV deals with the strategies and methods with which to study individual dispositions within the sociocultural matrix, Part V concludes with two essays on cultural and personality research including new advances and avenues of research that have appeared within the last seven years.
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LeVine, Robert Alan was born on March 27, 1932 in New York City. Son of Aaron and Emily (Fried) LeVine.
Bachelor of Arts Chicago, 1951. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1958.
Instructor, then assistant professor anthropology Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1958-1960. Assistant professor University of Chicago, 1960-1963, associate professor,1963-1967, professor, 1967-1976. Roy East. Larsen professor education and human development Harvard University, since 1976, professor anthropology, since 1983.
Director Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, 1972-1974.
Author: Nyansongo: A Gusil Community in Kenya, 1966. Ethnocentrism, 1972; Culture, Behavior and Personality, 1973, Human Conditions, 1986.
Parental Behavior in Diverse Societies, 1988, Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa, 1994. Contributor articles to professional journals Board of directors Social Science Research Council, New York City, 1978-1984, chairman, 1980-1983.
Board overseers Shady Hill School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981-1983.
Board directors Spencer Foundation, 1991.
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Board director Social Science Research Council, New York City, 1978—1984, chairman, 1980—1983. Board overseers Shady Hill School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981—1983. Board director Spencer Foundation, 1991—2001.
Fellow: Swedish Collegium Advanced Study in Social Sciences (1992-1993), American Anthropological Association, American Academy Arts & Sciences. Member: National Academy Education (secretary-treasurer 1989-1992).
Married Barbara Bloom, August 31, 1953 (divorced May 1963). Married Sarah Eleanor Friedberger, December 8, 1968. Children: Anna Louisa, Alexander John.