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In The Great Rift Valley Massai
mothers and babies share a loving relationship, filled with physical
contact and nurturing. Small babies are cuddled, tickled, nursed and
held. Tepilet O. Saitoti |
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One
of the cornerstones of attachment theory is the notion that secure
base use and secure base service are built upon biases in human learning
abilities that are part of our primate evolutionary endowment.
Thus, in most human societies, infants use one or a few adults as
a secure base. Moreover, in most societies, adults are able
to use one or a few others as a secure base and to serve as a secure
base to someone else. This is entirely consistent with there
being cultural differences in the organization and specific signals
used in secure base relationships, especially after infancy.
The notion that secure base relationships are utterly specific to
capitalist white middle-class families flies in the face of experience. |
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