Andrea Wiley

Re-imagining Milk (eBook, PDF)

Cultural and Biological Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Written explicitly for undergraduates, Re-imagining Milk demonstrates how a particular commodity can be used to illustrate ethnocentric beliefs about the universal goodness of milk; biological variation in human populations; political and economic processes that inform dietary policies, nutrition education, and current trends in globalization; the utility of a biocultural approach to the study of food; the cultural construction of a commodity that is consumed by many students on a daily basis, or if not, certainly is one that students "know" they "should" consume daily.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317403043
• Artikelnr.: 49352803

Autorenporträt

Andrea S. Wiley is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Human Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has conducted research in India and has longstanding research interests in milk consumption and human biology. Her previous books include Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Meaning of Dairy Products in the United States and India (Harvard University Press, 2014), An Ecology of High Altitude Infancy (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Perspective, Second Edition (with John Allen, Oxford University Press, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: On the "specialness" of milk 2. Population variation in
milk digestion and dietary policy 3. A Brief History of Milk Consumption:
Europe and the U.S. 4. Milk consumption, calcium, and child growth 5.
Growing children around the world: the globalization of childhood milk
consumption 6. Conclusion