Breastfeeding: New Anthropological ApproachesCecília Tomori, Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist, EA Quinn Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches unites sociocultural, biological, and archaeological anthropological scholarship to spark new 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 discussions around breastfeeding by showcasing fresh insights gleaned from an array of theoretical and methodological approaches, which are grounded in the close study of people 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 sociocultural context of the complex, lived experience of breastfeeding. By bringing together researchers across three anthropological subfields, the volume seeks 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, bioarchaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and human development. Lactation professionals and peer supporters, midwives, and others who support infant feeding will find the book an essential read. |
Contents
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breastfeeding milk and collaborative motherinfant | |
milk sharing and the social life of passive immunity | |
comparative analysis of a biocultural body | |
conceptualizations of breastfeeding among African | |
Breastfeeding and body size | |
peer milk sharing as moral motherwork in Central | |
evolution and current implications | |
breastfeeding and weaning in the past | |
breastfeeding ecology and infant health in Yucatán | |
New mothers breastfeeding expectations challenges and the return | |
Understanding and enabling breastfeeding in the context of maternalinfant | |
Breastfeeding in search of the right questions | |
Milk medium chain fatty acids and human evolution | |
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Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches Cecília Tomori,Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist,E. A. Quinn,Elizabeth A. Quinn No preview available - 2018 |
Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches Cecília Tomori,Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist,Elizabeth A. Quinn No preview available - 2018 |