American Vs. Mayan Infant Care Practices

The Maya were a people from Middle America, which includes modern Guatemala, Southern Mexico, and Northern Belize (Editors). The Maya civilization was considered to be “one of the most dominant indigenous societies of Mesoamerica,” (Maya). “The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making, and mathematics, and left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork,” (Maya). They also gave mankind the modern calendar (Jarus, Maya). The Mayans were a very advanced people, but one of the most important things in the Mayan culture was their religion/god worshipping rituals.

The article "Our Babies, Ourselves" by Meredith F. Small compares and contrasts child development based on the type of attention and care received while an infant. Each culture typically accepts the social normality’s around us to decide how to care for and react to situations with the child. The main ideas can be most easily broken down to Western and non-Western cultures. Western cultures for example seem to let the child alone more often, sometimes let a child "cry it out" and sleep in a room alone to try and reinforce an independence which seems prized in American every day society. Non-Western peoples such as the Efe in Congo, on the other hand, try to enforce a communal lifestyle and in turn have the baby always being taken care of by multiple individuals, not just of family, but also friends and community members to shape a future of trusting and communal behavior. The reason that humans are dependent on their parents for an incredibly

There were numerous powerful testimonies and striking findings noted throughout the and first two chapters of the book Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin. As a health care provider, and therefore someone who is entrusted to care for individuals during their most private and sacred times, I found Gaskin’s statements regarding the environment and care surrounding birth experiences very impactful. According to Gaskin (2011), the “women’s perceptions about their bodies and their babies’ capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they recieve around the time of birth” (p. 22). The statements made by Gaskin in Birth Matters not only ring true, but inspires one

There are many differences between americans and mayans. There are also lots of similarities. One thing is they had sacrifices. They also had gods.

The job of child rearing is widely regarded as a maternal responsibility for most cultures

The amount of care a newborn child needs is immense, in some cases this is like a full-time job. Parents who are not able to give this nurturing to their child negatively affect the overall well-being of the child. Most emotional and psychological problems arise from the way a child was taken care of from birth all the way through adolescence. However, not every pregnant woman is able to provide for her child due to finances, relationship stability, age, living conditions or

Before the development of daycare companies, mothers in U.S.A would leave babies dozing in carriages parked outside movie places, under care of other friends, cribs, and cradles, locking them in tenement flats and car parks in factory lots (Pruissen, 2012). Some women took their children to their mothers, to neighbors and strangers. In all these instances, the security and care of children were not guaranteed as some women would lose their children or find them with infection such as lice, fever or running noses. Being able to leave your child under someone else 's care can be very hard on mothers.

The Mayan religious beliefs and American religious beliefs are very different from each other. They both have many differences but at the same time, they have many similarities. Mayan culture developed very differently than American culture as they both did not influence each other at all, but still had some similarities. Mayans had many unique religious beliefs. For one they were polytheistic, which means that they believed in several gods opposed to one.

A mother’s love towards her children is un-paralleled by any bond between two people that exists today. A mother is willing to sacrifice anything in order to ensure her child’s safety and success. Despite the eternal love of mothers toward their children, every mother has a specific route that they think is correct when raising their children. For example, in the United States it is commonly accepted that a baby should sleep in a different room than their parents to develop independence, whereas in Mayan culture, the infants sleep with their mothers for the first few years. For this paper, a 47-year-old Indian mother who immigrated to American at a relatively young age was interviewed. The current age of her children are 22 and 20, both of whom attend college far away from home and have exhibited a large amount of independence from their mother. In Indian culture, it is widely noted that the child should sleep with their parents as the parents wanted to develop a stronger bond with their child. When I asked the interviewee whether she slept in the same bed as her mother, she said she did sleep in the same bed as her mother until the age of 4. The purpose of this paper is to see if immigrant mothers that now live in the United States adhere to the cultural norms of newborn infants sleeping in different rooms than them or whether they follow the same norms that the Mayans exhibit as talked

Some traditions from hundreds of years ago still stand today. Discoveries from the past shaped the current and future generations. The past generations have given us their wisdom and knowledge to help us make our way through life. Past cultures such as the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas shaped our knowledge and way of thinking an incredible amount. The innovations from these past societies have created the world we know today.

As we learned in lesson 5, an established path through social networking is a characteristic of displacement in Latin America. Social networks provide or connect displaced migrants from Latin America with certain resources and jobs and possibly increase the likelihood of keeping jobs. More simply put social networks serve as transitioning connections as well as increase the probability of successful living after having been displaced. A social network can be established in any of the new areas an individual may arrive to at any given time. In the lesson professor Nelson provided us with an ethnographic study about a Mayan community in Texas. Juan Chanax moved from Totonicapán Guatemala to the Houston Texas in the U.S., he and his brother-in-law

The Mayans were a group of indians who lived in regions of Central America to Mexico. To this day, archaeologists, sociologists, and anthropologists are fascinated by the Mayan Indians early form of culture. The Mayan Indians ate very simple food, using their resources, that was easy to find and make. Maize, or corn, was the staple food of the Mayans diet. They incorporated maize into almost all of their meals because it was an easy thing to find and there was a lot of it.

Culturally is it unusual that Lanesha’s grandmother is her primary caregiver? I would like to say no to this question, but the facts behind this issue don’t support it. Within the African American community, approximately 12% of African American children nationally are cared for by their grandparents, compared to approximately 7% of Hispanic children and 4% of non-Hispanic White children (NCBI, 2010). Lanesha and her grandmother are part of a larger issue that is reflected in today’s society. Several reasons can exist for this paradigm, anything from the parents needing complete education, the grandparents supplementing expensive daycare costs, or simply because the parents are not involved in the child’s life.

How could societies from hundreds of years ago influence both the past and the present? When historians and archaeologists look back on the thriving communities of the Maya, Aztecs, and Inca their question is answered. These societies were introduced many products and ideas. The Mayan, Aztecan, and Incan societies heavily influenced the past as well as the present.

Maya were native American people inhabiting central America and southern Mexico region. Their civilization reached its most glorious period from about 250 A.D to 900 A.D. They adopted many ideas and practices from Teotihuacán, built temples, palaces, observatories, overcame barren soil through irrigation and terracing, grew squash, chili peppers, maize, produced and traded metalwork, cotton cloth, chipped stone tools, and had a media of exchange for trade included cocoa beans, polished beads, salt, cloth. Cultural advances of Maya include development of mathematics and