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Cooperative Child Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context

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Attachment Reconsidered

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Mainstream models of attachment theory are mother-centered and do not address the evolutionary underpinnings of attachment or cross-cultural variation. Recently, there has been a call to arms to adopt a new and less monotropic paradigm that incorporates cultural diversity. Here, we address the need of attachment theory to incorporate evolutionary perspectives and models of multiple attachment by exploring patterns of cooperative care among the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. Data from small-scale foraging populations add to the rapidly expanding corpus of work that now views attachment as both culturally influenced and biologically based.

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Crittenden, A.N., Marlowe, F.W. (2013). Cooperative Child Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context. In: Quinn, N., Mageo, J.M. (eds) Attachment Reconsidered. Culture, Mind, and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137386724_3

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