Anthropology Of Breast Feeding

Author : Cecília Tomori,Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist,EA Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351383608

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Breastfeeding by Cecília Tomori,Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist,EA Quinn Pdf

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.

Author : Vanessa Maher
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015025392773

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Anthropology of Breast-Feeding by Vanessa Maher Pdf

On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues. The significance of breast-feeding reaches far beyond its biological function; in fact, the authors of this volume argue, there is nothing `natural' about breast-feeding itself. On the contrary, attitudes and practices are socially determined, and breast-feeding has to be seen as an essential element in the cultural construction of sexuality. This volume offers an `ethnography' of breast-feeding by examining cultural norms and practices in a number of European and non-European societies, thus presenting valuable and often astonishing empirical material that is not otherwise readily available. The highly original focus of this volume therefore throws new light on gender and on social relationships in general.

Author : Tanya Cassidy,Abdullahi El Tom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183092

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Ethnographies of Breastfeeding by Tanya Cassidy,Abdullahi El Tom Pdf

Breastfeeding is an intimate and deeply rooted bodily practice, as well as a highly controversial sociocultural process which invokes strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Touching on a wide range of issues such as reproduction, sexuality, power and resources, and maternal and infant health, the controversies and cultural complexities underlying breastfeeding are immense.Ethnographies of Breastfeeding features the latest research on the topic. Some of the leading scholars in the field explore variations in breastfeeding practices from around the world. Based on empirical work in areas such as Brazil, West Africa, Darfur, Ireland, Italy, France, the UK and the US, they examine the cross-cultural challenges facing mothers feeding their infants.Reframing the traditional nature/culture debate, the book moves beyond existing approaches to consider themes such as surrogacy, the risk of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, and the increasing bio-medicalization of breast milk, which is leading its transformation from process to product. A highly important contribution to global debates on breast milk and breastfeeding.

Author : Vanessa Maher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1390782836

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The anthropology of breast-feeding by Vanessa Maher Pdf

Author : Patricia Stuart-Macadam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781351530743

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Breastfeeding by Patricia Stuart-Macadam Pdf

Breastfeeding is a biocultural phenomenon: not only is it a biological process, but it is also a culturally determined behavior. As such, it has important implications for understanding the past, present, and future condition of our species. In general, scholars have emphasized either the biological or the cultural aspects of breastfeeding, but not both. As biological anthropologists the editors of this volume feel that an evolutionary approach combining both aspects is essential. One of the goals of their book is to incorporate data from diverse fields to present a more holistic view of breastfeeding, through the inclusion of research from a number of different disciplines, including biological and social/cultural anthropology, nutrition, and medicine. The resulting book, presenting the complexity of the issues surrounding very basic decisions about infant nutrition, will fill a void in the existing literature on breastfeeding.

Author : Patricia Stuart Macadam,Katherine A. Dettwyler
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202364476

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Breastfeeding by Patricia Stuart Macadam,Katherine A. Dettwyler Pdf

Author : Mara Mabilia
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782386070

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Breast Feeding and Sexuality by Mara Mabilia Pdf

Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial, purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal relations with its own rules and expectations. In this study, the author examines the cultural and social context of breastfeeding among the Gogo women of the Cigongwe's village in Tanzania, as part of the Paediatric Programme of Doctors with Africa, based in Padua. The focus is on mothers' behaviour and post partum taboos as key elements in Gogo understanding of the vicissitudes of the breast feeding process. This nutritional period is subject to many different events both physical and social that may upset the natural and intense link between mother and child. Any violation of cultural norms, particularly those dealing with sexual behaviour, marriage and reproduction, can, in the eyes of the Gogo, put at risk the correct development of an infant with serious consequences both for the baby's health as well as for the woman's image as mother and wife.

Author : Susan Falls
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803277212

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White Gold by Susan Falls Pdf

Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing “white gold”—seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance—is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values. Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.

Author : Cecília Tomori
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781782384366

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Nighttime Breastfeeding by Cecília Tomori Pdf

Nighttime for many new parents in the United States is fraught with the intense challenges of learning to breastfeed and helping their babies sleep so they can get rest themselves. Through careful ethnographic study of the dilemmas raised by nighttime breastfeeding, and their examination in the context of anthropological, historical, and feminist studies, this volume unravels the cultural tensions that underlie these difficulties. As parents negotiate these dilemmas, they not only confront conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and solitary infant sleep, but also larger questions about cultural and moral expectations for children and parents, and their relationship with one another.

Author : P. Stuart-Macadam,K.a. Dettwyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110151677

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Breastfeeding by P. Stuart-Macadam,K.a. Dettwyler Pdf

Author : Fiona Dykes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134157181

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Breastfeeding in Hospital by Fiona Dykes Pdf

'Breast is best' is today’s prevailing mantra. However, women – particularly first-time mothers – frequently feel unsupported when they come to feed their baby. This new experience often takes place in the impersonal and medicalized surroundings of a hospital maternity ward where women are 'seen to' by overworked midwives. Using a UK-based ethnographic study and interview material, this book provides a new, radical and critical perspective on the ways in which women experience breastfeeding in hospitals. It highlights that, in spite of heavy promotion of breastfeeding, there is often a lack of support for women who begin to breastfeed in hospitals, thus challenging the current system of postnatal care within a culture in which neither service-user nor provider feel satisfied. Incorporating recommendations for policy and practice on infant feeding, Breastfeeding in Hospital is highly relevant to health professionals and breastfeeding supporters as well as to students in health and social care, medical anthropology and medical sociology, as it explores practice issues while contextualising them within a broad social, political and economic context.

Author : Emily H. Emmott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781009217477

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Improving Breastfeeding Rates by Emily H. Emmott Pdf

Breastfeeding is championed as an effective way to improve global health, associated with improved health outcomes for children and mothers. Various public health strategies to promote breastfeeding have been developed and implemented for over four decades, yet progress has stagnated, and exclusive breastfeeding rates remain low globally. From an evolutionary anthropological perspective, low breastfeeding rates seem like an 'evolutionary puzzle'; breastfeeding is a behaviour which confers survival and fitness advantage to children and mothers, yet so many mothers do not breastfeed exclusively or at all. Is this a globally maladaptive behaviour? Framing breastfeeding as a maternal investment behaviour, an evolutionary perspective directs us to consider the fitness costs of breastfeeding, together with the role of social learning and cultural norms. Indeed, an evolutionary anthropological perspective provides insights to why some breastfeeding-promotion strategies may have been ineffective, while pointing to potentially promising policies and practices which have been overlooked

Author : Penny Van Esterik,Richard A. O’Connor
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781785335631

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The Dance of Nurture by Penny Van Esterik,Richard A. O’Connor Pdf

Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.

Author : Paige Hall Smith,Bernice Hausman,Miriam Labbok
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813553160

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Beyond Health, Beyond Choice by Paige Hall Smith,Bernice Hausman,Miriam Labbok Pdf

Current public health promotion of breastfeeding relies heavily on health messaging and individual behavior change. Women are told that “breast is best” but too little serious attention is given to addressing the many social, economic, and political factors that combine to limit women’s real choice to breastfeed beyond a few days or weeks. The result: women’s, infants’, and public health interests are undermined. Beyond Health, Beyond Choice examines how feminist perspectives can inform public health support for breastfeeding. Written by authors from diverse disciplines, perspectives, and countries, this collection of essays is arranged thematically and considers breastfeeding in relation to public health and health care; work and family; embodiment (specifically breastfeeding in public); economic and ethnic factors; guilt; violence; and commercialization. By examining women’s experiences and bringing feminist insights to bear on a public issue, the editors attempt to reframe the discussion to better inform public health approaches and political action. Doing so can help us recognize the value of breastfeeding for the public’s health and the important productive and reproductive contributions women make to the world.

Author : Susan Falls
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781496202697

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White Gold by Susan Falls Pdf

Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing "white gold"--seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance--is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values. Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.