Mother and Child: Visions of Parenting from Indigenous Cultures

By Jan Reynolds

Mothers shape the world in which we live through the love and guidence they give their children. Award-winning journalist and photographer Jan Reynolds explored the mother/child relationship through seven stages of life--marriage, pregnancy, birth, infancy, toddling, independence, and adolescence--while living with women in the Himalaya, the Sahara, the Aboriginal Outback, the Amazon Territory, above the Arctic Circle, and Mongolia. Reynolds was struck by the special relationship of these women and children and their deep connection with the natural environment. Her stories and photographs chronicle the ancient art of mothering and describe ways mothers in the modern world can incorporate these indigenous methods into their own lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892816376
• ISBN13: 9780892816378
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Inner Traditions International
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

An Amazing Book for Mothers

An amazing book which explores how women from indigenous cultures experience birth, parenting, and the relationship with their child, the most significant transitions in a woman's life. She shows how these women accept, receive and utilize strong impressions from nature. The book examines the true and natural bonding between mother and child, and how it is impacted by many factors: i.e. the interaction, the long-process, a natural environment, relationships with others and more. The pictures are amazingly beautiful and have a positive impact in helping understand the events described in the book. Any mother who desires a close natural bond with her child will benefit from reading this magical book. Jeffrey L. Fine, PhD, Psychologist: Author of: - "The Art of Conscious Parenting"

The pictures are wonderful

The pictures and text offer a wonderful look at parents and babies in different cultures.