- Jean Liedloff
Jean Liedloff is an American author, best known for her 1975 book "The Continuum Concept". She was born in
New York . As a teenager, she accomplished the "Drew Seminary for Young Women" and began studying atCornell University , but began her expeditions before she could graduate. During a diamond hunting expedition toVenezuela , 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" in an attempt to document the Yequana way of life, in particular their style of child rearing. From 1968 to 1970, Liedloff was editor ofThe Ecologist .Bibliography
*"The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost" ISBN 0-201-05071-4
See also
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Baby sling External links
* [http://www.continuum-concept.org/reading/JFL-interview.html Interview]
* [http://www.continuum-concept.de/liedlied.htm Biography (in German) and picture]
* [http://devon.freepgs.com/2007/golf.php Jean Liedloff on the role of golf in the Western lifestyle]
* [http://www.continuum-concept.org/ The Liedloff Continuum Network]
* [http://www.jjlcc.myphotoalbum.com/ Jean's Photo Album]
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