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Fathers and their children in the first three years of life : an anthropological perspective / / Frank L'Engle Williams



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Autore: Williams Frank L'Engle <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fathers and their children in the first three years of life : an anthropological perspective / / Frank L'Engle Williams Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: College Station : , : Texas A&M University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 221 pages )
Disciplina: 155.6462
Soggetto topico: Father and infant
Fatherhood - History
Patriarchy
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: How Long Have Fathers Carried and Cared for Their Infants? -- Life Cycle -- The Birth of a Child and the "Birth" of a Socially Recognized Father -- Couvade and Hormonal Correlates of Paternity -- Postnatal Infant Development -- Reproductive Careers among Forager Males -- The Duration of Father Care Estimated from Skeletal Maturation and Decline -- Evidence of Father Care in Humans and Animals -- Forager Fathers and Infants Cross-culturally -- Paternal Behavior in Nonhuman Primates and Other Animals -- Evolutionary Perspectives -- The Evolution of Carrying Behavior -- Hyper-encephalization of Neonates -- Becoming Human -- Epilogue: The Role of Father Care: Past, Present, and Future.
Sommario/riassunto: "Frank L'Engle Williams examines the anthropological record for evidence of the social behaviors associated with paternity, suggesting that ample evidence exists for the importance of such behaviors for infant survival. Focusing on the first three postnatal years, he considers the implications of father care--both in the fossil record and in more recent cross-cultural research--for the development of such distinctively human traits as bipedalism, extensive brain growth, language, and socialization. He also reviews the rituals by which many human societies construct and reinforce the meanings of socially recognized fatherhood--hormonal, physiological, and social changes incorporated into specific cultural manifestations of paternity. Father care was adaptive within the context of the parental pair bond, and shaped how infants developed socially and biologically. The initial imprinting of socially recognized fathers during the first few postnatal years may have sustained culturally-sanctioned indirect care such as provisioning and protection of dependents for nearly two decades thereafter. In modern humans, this three-year window is critical to father-child bonding--which differs so intrinsically from the mother-child relationship. By increasing the survival of children in the past, present, and quite possibly the future, father care may be a driving force in the biological and cultural evolution of Homo sapiens."
Altri titoli varianti: Fathers and their children in the first 3 years of life
Titolo autorizzato: Fathers and their children in the first three years of life  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-62349-808-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824602703321
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Serie: Texas A & M University anthropology series ; ; Volume 20.