ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an ethnographic report, in which relevant observed events, so long as they are not wrested from their socio-cultural context, may perhaps be useful as material for psychologists interested in cross-cultural studies. I will not attempt to generalise on the basis of my material on such issues as the psychology of cognition and 'psychological' behaviour in which I have no training. I shall, however, make a very sweeping statement! I will declare that children from an early age, in all cultures, are particularly sensitive to their parents' (and other family members') non-verbally expressed sentiments. I shall also declare that the attitudes of adults which are expressed nonverbally form an integral part of the socialisation process.
