Tomori / E. L. Palmquist / Quinn Breastfeeding

New Anthropological Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-38360-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomori, Cecilia

Tomori, Cecília

E. L. Palmquist, Aunchalee

Quinn, EA

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Penny Van Esterik

1. Introduction: Towards Multidisciplinary Anthropologies of Breastfeeding Cecília Tomori, Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist, EA Quinn

2. Beyond passive immunity: Breastfeeding, milk and collaborative mother-infant immune systems Elizabeth M. Miller

3. Consuming Immunities: Milk sharing and the social life of passive immunity Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist

4. Breastsleeping in Four Cultures: Comparative Analysis of a Biocultural Body Technique Cecília Tomori

5. “Natural, Like My Hair”: Conceptualizations of Breastfeeding among African American Women Sarah Sobonya

6. Breastfeeding and Body Size Nicola L. Hawley and Pavane Gorrepati

7. Mothers, Milk, and Morals: Peer Milk Sharing as Moral Motherwork in Central Florida Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster and Shannon K. Carter

8. Human milk fatty acids: the importance of medium chain fatty acids for human development EA Quinn

9. Chestfeeding as Gender Fluid Practice Michelle Walks

10. Mixed-Feeding in Humans: Evolution and Current Implications Melanie Martin

11. Out of the mouths 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.

12. Shifting Weanling’s Optimum: Breastfeeding Ecology and Infant Health in Yucatán Amanda Veile and Karen Kramer

13. New Mothers’ Breastfeeding Expectations, Challenges, and the Return to Employment Carrie Hough, Erica Prussing and Kayleigh Applegate

14. Understanding and enabling breastfeeding in the context of maternal-infant needs Kristin P. Tully and Helen L. Ball

Afterword James J. McKenna

Über Autor(innen)

Cecília Tomori is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.

Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist is Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, 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.