UID:
almahu_9949384818802882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781351383608
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1351383604
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9781315145129
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131514512X
Content:
"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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Chapter 1 Introduction --
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Towards new anthropologies of breastfeeding /
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chapter 2 Beyond passive immunity --
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Breastfeeding, milk and collaborative mother-infant immune systems /
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chapter 3 Consuming immunities --
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Milk sharing and the social life of passive immunity /
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chapter 4 Breastsleeping in four cultures 1 --
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Comparative analysis of a biocultural body technique /
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chapter 5 "Natural, like my hair" --
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Conceptualizations of breastfeeding among African American women /
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chapter 6 Breastfeeding and body size /
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chapter 7 Mothers, milk, and morals --
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Peer milk sharing as moral motherwork in Central Florida /
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chapter 8 Milk, medium chain fatty acids and human evolution /
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chapter 9 Chestfeeding as gender fluid practice /
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chapter 10 Mixed-feeding in humans --
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Evolution and current implications /
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chapter 11 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings --
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Breastfeeding and weaning in the past /
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chapter 12 Shifting weanling's optimum --
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Breastfeeding ecology and infant health in Yucatán /
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chapter 13 New mothers' breastfeeding expectations, challenges, and the return to employment /
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chapter 14 Understanding and enabling breastfeeding in the context of maternal-infant needs /
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chapter Afterword --
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Breastfeeding: In search of the right questions /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Breastfeeding Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138502888
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Cross-cultural studies.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315145129
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