| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Towards new anthropologies of breastfeeding / Cecília Tomori Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist EA Quinn -- chapter 2 Beyond passive immunity -- Breastfeeding, milk and collaborative mother-infant immune systems / Elizabeth M. Miller -- chapter 3 Consuming immunities -- Milk sharing and the social life of passive immunity / Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist -- chapter 4 Breastsleeping in four cultures 1 -- Comparative analysis of a biocultural body technique / Cecília Tomori -- chapter 5 "Natural, like my hair" -- Conceptualizations of breastfeeding among African American women / Sarah Sobonya -- chapter 6 Breastfeeding and body size / Nicola L. Hawley Pavane Gorrepati -- chapter 7 Mothers, milk, and morals -- Peer milk sharing as moral motherwork in Central Florida / Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster Shannon K. Carter -- chapter 8 Milk, medium chain fatty acids and human evolution / EA Quinn -- chapter 9 Chestfeeding as gender fluid practice / Michelle Walks -- chapter 10 Mixed-feeding in humans -- Evolution and current implications / Melanie Martin -- chapter 11 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings -- Breastfeeding and weaning in the past / Siân E. Halcrow Charlotte L. King Andrew R. Millard Anne Marie E. Snoddy Rachel M. Scott Gail E. Elliott Darren R. Gröcke Hallie R. Buckley Vivien G. Standen Bernardo T. Arriaza -- chapter 12 Shifting weanling's optimum -- Breastfeeding ecology and infant health in Yucatán / Amanda Veile Karen L. Kramer -- chapter 13 New mothers' breastfeeding expectations, challenges, and the return to employment / Carrie Hough Erica Prussing Kayleigh Applegate -- chapter 14 Understanding and enabling breastfeeding in the context of maternal-infant needs / Kristin P. Tully Helen L. Ball -- chapter Afterword -- Breastfeeding: In search of the right questions / James J. McKenna |
| Summary |
"Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches unites sociocultural, archaeological and biological anthropological scholarship to spark new trans-disciplinary conversations and research about breastfeeding. While breastfeeding has become the subject of intense debate in many settings, anthropological perspectives have played a limited role in these conversations. The present volume seeks to broaden the scope of discussion on breastfeeding by showcasing fresh insights gleaned using an array of theoretical and methodological approaches in the close study of human groups across the globe. Drawing on case studies and analyses of key issues in the field, the book highlights the power of anthropological research to illuminate the evolutionary, historical, biological, and cultural context of the complex, lived experience of breastfeeding. By bringing together a group of researchers across three anthropological subfields, the volume seeks to stimulate intellectual exchange and new thinking about breastfeeding in order to produce transformative knowledge about human lactation, breastfeeding, and human milk. This book is a key resource for scholars of medical and biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, social and cultural anthropology, and studies in human development. Practitioners (including midwives and lactation consultants) who must fulfil an anthropology requirement as part of their training will also find the book an essential read."--Provided by publisher |
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Breastfeeding.
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Anthropology.
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Women -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies
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Breast Feeding
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Anthropology
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anthropology.
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Anthropology
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Breastfeeding
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Women -- Social conditions
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Loscalzo Palmquist, Aunchalee, editor
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Quinn, Elizabeth, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315145129 |
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131514512X |
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