In so-called “primitive” cultures, babies
are breastfed and are in more or less continuous
and prolonged contact with their mother’s
body, just as Kabongo descri bed it. If it is
not the mother, someone else will be sure to
be holding or carrying the child-even when
it is quite old-since children have no toys
they love to play with and take care of
younger children. So the child is always in
cutaneous contact with someone.2