Looking back to the future: Māori and Pakeha mother-child birth stories

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-125

  Reese, Elaine ^a   Hayne, Harlene ^a   MacDonald, Shelley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLKLORE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NARRATION; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 38849155735     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01114.x     Document Type: Article

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