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The Comparative Motor Development of Baganda, American White, and American Black Infants†

  1. Janet E. Kilbride1,
  2. Michael C. Robbins1,
  3. Philip L. Kilbride2

Article first published online: 28 OCT 2009

DOI: 10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00160

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American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist

Volume 72, Issue 6, pages 1422–1428, December 1970

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Kilbride, J. E., Robbins, M. C. and Kilbride, P. L. (1970), The Comparative Motor Development of Baganda, American White, and American Black Infants. American Anthropologist, 72: 1422–1428. doi: 10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00160

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  1. 1

    University of Missouri

  2. 2

    Bryn Mawr College

  • †

    The field research for this study was generously supported by grants from the Agricultural Development Council, Inc., and a National Science Foundation Institutional grant to M.C.R. administered by Pennsylvania State University. We would like to thank the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda, and Dr. W. Law and Matron Lutu of Mulago Government Hospital in Masaka, Uganda, for their support. Appreciation is also extended to I. E. Harms, Professor of Child Development, Pennsylvania State University, for training J.E.K. in infant testing; P. Robbins for help in interrater reliability tests; and W. Kawuma and R. Kisule, our interpreter-research assistants. Professor Gavan of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Missouri kindly read an earlier manuscript draft and offered comments.

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  1. Issue published online: 28 OCT 2009
  2. Article first published online: 28 OCT 2009
  3. Accepted for publication 18 December 1969.

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