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Author : Lucy Nduta Thairu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924105484087
Author : Tanya Cassidy,Abdullahi El Tom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189728
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 : Lucy Nduta Thairu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090208095
Author : Fiona Dykes,Victoria Hall-Moran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1444315323
This exciting book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Victoria Hall Moran and with a foreword from Gretel Pelto, explores in an integrated context the varied factors associated with infant and child nutrition, including global feeding strategies, cultural factors, issues influencing breastfeeding, and economic and life cycle influences
Author : Mara Mabilia
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782386070
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 : Fiona Dykes,Renée Flacking
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317647928
A unique and innovative resource for conducting ethnographic research in health care settings, Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health provides a combination of ethnographic theory and an international selection of empirical case studies. The book begins with an overview of the origins and development of ethnography as a methodology, discussing underpinning theoretical perspectives, key methods and challenges related to conducting this type of research. The following substantive chapters present and reflect on ethnographic studies conducted in the fields of maternal and child health, neonatal nursing, midwifery and reproductive health. Designed for academics, postgraduate students and health practitioners within maternal and child health, family health, medical sociology, medical anthropology, medicine, midwifery, neonatal care, paediatrics, social anthropology and public health, the book will also illuminate issues that can help health practitioners to improve service delivery.
Author : Leslie B. Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134284573
First Published in 1985. This is Volume 3 of a series on Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology. In the aftermath of the controversial marketing of infant formula in the Third World, this volume describes infant care and feeding practices within their social, cultural and physical context among fourteen different Melanesian and Polynesian societies. The contributors address such issues as health and nutritional status, women's roles and social support, early socialization, symbolism and meaning of foods and feeding and intracultural variability. The material is valuable to health professionals, nutritionists and social scientists in understanding infant care and feeding practices in underdeveloped regions.
Author : Robert A. Hahn,Marcia Claire Inhorn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195374643
Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs.
Author : Penny Van Esterik,Richard A. O’Connor
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781785335631
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 : Janet Chrzan,John Brett
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785332883
Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods. A case study from the author's own work is included in each chapter to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore those methods.
Author : Janet Chrzan,John Brett
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785333644
The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture. These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health.
Author : Lianne Holten
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643903013
How to understand the simultaneity of parental love and care with inaction when a child is ill? This question inspired author Lianne Holten to conduct the ethnographic study presented in this book. Holten worked and lived in the isolated village of Farabako (Mali) to help establish a maternity clinic. She clearly describes the tension between Western biomedical thinking and local ideas on health. Holten explains how biomedical assumptions make the mothers' actions appear incomprehensible, but she also shows the logic within the local context. This study contributes to the understanding of the importance of local moralities in health and will be useful for public health initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa. (Series: Mande Worlds - Vol. 6)
Author : Vanessa Maher
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015025392773
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 : Cecília Tomori,Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist,EA Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351383608
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 : Fiona Mackenzie
Publisher : International Development Research Centre = Centre de recherche pour le développement international
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : UCAL:B4527088
