Ethos

MOTHERING AS EVERYDAY PRACTICE

This special issue of Ethos began in conversations between editors, between Kathleen Barlow and Bambi Chapin, who were puzzled by how the seemingly contradictory, even ad hoc welter of mother–child interactions embedded in larger agendas of family, community, and large-scale cultural events and processes could produce highly enculturated adults confidentin a shared world view. Their experiences not only pointed out the vastly different understandings of ‘‘good mothering’’ people might hold but also made them acutely aware that their own mothering emerges as they juggle competing roles and agendas, mothering our own children in the midst of other work and relationships.

Watch this interview with editor, Bambi Chapin, and learn more about the issue!

Read the most cited articles from Ethos in 2010!

Culture and Mind: Their Fruitful Incommensurability

Reading Minds and Telling Tales in a Cultural Borderland

Side by Side: Learning by Observing and Pitching In

Introduction: Mental Health Discourse as Western Cultural Proselytization

Sobriety and Its Cultural Politics: An Ethnographer's Perspective on "Culturally Appropriate" Addiction Services in Native North America