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Mead, Margaret

Growth and culture : a photographic study of Balinese childhood / by Margaret Mead and Frances Cooke Macgregor. - ill. ; 223 p. ; 27 cm.

Includes index

Note on Orthography and pronunciation --
Chapter 1. The need for awareness --
Chapter 2. The significance of growth in cuture --
Chapter 3. Childhood in the village of Bajeong Gede --

PART II Introduction to the plates and captions --

Plates I-LVIII --
Plate arrangement --

Traditional ways of sleeping, suckling, feeding, and bathing --
Sleeping --
Sucking --
Feeding --
Bathing --

Pecularities of maturational path taken by Balinese children --
Late frogging --
Sitting --
Creeping --
All fours --
Squatting --
Standing with support --
Standing alone --
Walking --

Whole-body postures --
Balance --
Compensatory balance --
Postural flexibility --
Symmetry --
Postural variations --
Plates --
Extensions of body parts --
Flesion of body parts --
Outward rotation --
Inward rotation --
Low tonal organization --

HANDLING CHILDREN --
Firm hands --
Inattentive hands --
Attentive hands --

HAND AND FOOT POSTURES --
Prehension --
Prehension (cont.) --
Ulnar grasp --
Thump opposition --
Individuation of fingers --
Individuation of fingers (cont.) --
Little finger abduction --
Forefinger extension and abduction --
Cupped hands --
Fanning hands --
Total foot postures --
Toe postures --

SPECIAL ASPECTS OF BEHAVIOR --
Disassociated body parts --
A disassociated eyes --
Tantrums --
Finger to mouth

Based upon photographs by Gregory Bateson; analyzed in Gesell categories.

LCCN: Acc#13044

Subjects--Topical Terms:
CHILDREN--INDONESIA--BALI (PROVINCE)
BALINESE (INDONESIAN PEOPLE)

LC Class. No.: HQ 792 .B3 / M461 1951