
Jean Liedloff was an American author, born in New York, and best known for her 1975 book The Continuum Concept. She is the aunt of writer Janet Hobhouse, and is represented by the character Constance in Hobhouse's book "The Furies." Born in New York City in 1926, as a teenager she attended the Drew Seminary for Young Women and began studying at Cornell University, but began her expeditions before she could graduate. During a diamond-hunting expedition to Venezuela, she came into contact with an indigenous people named the Yequana. Over time she became fascinated with the Yequana, and made a decision to return to Venezuela to live with them. She wrote her book The Continuum Concept to describe her new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being, and to show us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves. Her book is based on her experiences while living with the Yequana, and discusses in particular their style of child-rearing and its fundamental effect on their later lives. She was a founding member of The Ecologist magazine. Liedloff died on March 15, 2011 in Sausalito, California.
by Jean Liedloff
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Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.
by Jean Liedloff
Rating: 4.3 ⭐
Die Autorin, die mehrere Jahre bei den Yequana-Indianern im Dschungel Venezuelas gelebt hat, schildert eindrucksvoll deren harmonisches, glückliches Zusammenleben und entdeckt seine Wurzeln im Umgang dieser Menschen mit ihren Sie zeigt, dass dort noch ein bei uns längst verschüttetes natürliches Wissen um die ursprünglichen Bedürfnisse von Kleinkindern existiert, das wir erst neu zu entdecken haben.
by Jean Liedloff
La prima violenza che caratterizza la nascita della vita nella nostra cultura è la rottura traumatica del rapporto madre-bambino sin dai primi istanti di vita. La separazione violenta del neonato dalla madre, imposta dalle moderne tecniche ospedaliere di gestione del parto, viene poi ripetuta spesso orgogliosamente nel corso della vita neo-natale. In realtà queste traumatiche privazioni infantili spesso costituiscono le premesse per la formazione di individui ansiosi, sradicati, aggressivi. A partire da un'originale esperienza di condivisione con una tribù di indios venezuelani, l'autrice rilegge in queste pagine il nostro contraddittorio rapporto con il bambino, spesso devastante perché privo delle più spontanee esperienze di continuum come la posizione dell'in-braccio, l'allattamento al seno, ecc. Quest'opera, conosciuta e tradotta in numerosi Paesi, chiarisce come la riappropriazione dei legami iniziali, che i genitori avvertono istintivamente verso il bambino, sia il primo ed essenziale contributo per educare alla pace in un mondo che gli adulti - bambini non amati di ieri - hanno condotto sull'orlo del baratro.
by Jean Liedloff
by Jean Liedloff
by Jean Liedloff
by Jean Liedloff