Aboringinal Parenting

Hi Megan,

Welcome to A2K!

I did a search on Google and found lots of leads:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=aboriginal+parenting

You might want to try other keywords, such as "anthropology", "mothers", etc. Is there something specific you are looking for in terms of parenting?

Poked around a bit, found a few sites that might be useful:

http://www.ausanthrop.net/

http://www.natsiew.nexus.edu.au/

http://www.aboriginalconnections.com/

Thanks
Thanks you so much for the help and the links.

Welcome, Megan! :-D

Hi

I"m doing a similar project and i went to all of those links but i can't find anything there, so i was wondering if there is something there and i'm just not looking hard enough? also are there any other sites you went to? any help would be great
thanks

Hi Kim, welcome to a2k. What do you mean 'nothing there'? Do you mean that the info found at the sites wasn't what you were looking for?

there was lots of information there but nothing about the parenting styles used in the aboriginal cultures.
my topic is parenting in different cultures, basically i'm going to be talking about how in our cultures the authoritative parenting style is the best, however in aboriginal and inuit cultures the permissive parenting style is the most effective, but i'm having alot of trouble finding research to back that up

In anthropology, the study of peoples and their cultures, the researchers write up an essay with their data at the end of a project. These are called ethnographies. Within these books is a great deal of variation, but the ones that deal with whole cultures (not sub- or sub-sub-cultures) almost always have a chapter on child-rearing styles.

Here are sites that list ethnographies, some classics and some new studies that have really branched out from the original form:

http://www.powells.com/subsection/AnthropologyEthnographies.html
http://members.tripod.com/anneballenger/anthro/ethlist.html

These are some classic ethnographies that may be useful:

Title: Life among the Yanomami : the story of change among the Xilixana on the Mucajai River in Brazil /
Author: Peters, John F. (John Fred), 1935-
Call: LIB SHELVES F 252.1 Y3 P48 1998

Title: The Australian aborigines,
Author: Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979.
Call: LIB SHELVES DU120.E4 1964

Title: The Tiwi of North Australia.
Author: Hart, C.W.M. (Charles William Merton), 1905 -
Call: LIB SHELVES DU122.T5 .H3

Title: The Dobe !Kung /
Author: Lee, Richard B.
Call: LIB SHELVES DT797.L42 1984

Ethnographies will give you data, to crunch it you'll need to use your noggin.