Breastfeeding

New Anthropological Approaches
Herausgeber: Tomori, Cecília; Quinn, Ea; E L Palmquist, Aunchalee

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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. Key reading for scholars of medical and biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, and social and cultural anthropology and practitioners (including midwives and lactation consultants) who must fulfil an anthropology requirement as part of their training.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138502888
• ISBN-10: 113850288X
• Artikelnr.: 57040963

Autorenporträt

Cecília Tomori is an anthropologist and Director of Global Public Health and Community Health at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, USA. Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist is Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. EA Quinn is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Translating conversations: bridging biological and social
approaches to breastfeeding 1. Introduction: towards new anthropologies of
breastfeeding 2. Beyond passive immunity: breastfeeding, milk and
collaborative mother-infant immune systems 3. Consuming immunities: milk
sharing and the social life of passive immunity 4. Breastsleeping in four
cultures: comparative analysis of a biocultural body technique 5. "Natural,
like my hair": conceptualizations of breastfeeding among African American
women 6. Breastfeeding and body size 7. Mothers, milk, and morals: peer
milk sharing as moral motherwork in Central Florida 8. Milk medium chain
fatty acids and human evolution 9. Chestfeeding as gender fluid practice
10. Mixed-feeding in humans: evolution and current implications 11. Out of
the mouth of babes and sucklings: breastfeeding and weaning in the past 12.
Shifting weanling's optimum: breastfeeding ecology and infant health in
Yucatán 13. New mothers' breastfeeding expectations, challenges, and the
return to employment 14. Understanding and enabling breastfeeding in the
context of maternal-infant needs Afterword: Breastfeeding: in search of the
right questions