After world war ii the emphasis began to shift toward an. Dettwyler is a compilation of scholarly lectures on anthropology and breastfeeding. Socioecological factors that influence infant and young. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Covers clinical medicine, nursing, allied health, public health, nutrition, health. We make sure that our database is constantly expanded and updated so that you can download all the files you need without any problems. Stone fprhc culture, brain and development program, school of critical social inquiry, hampshire college, amherst. Biocultural perspectives on breastfeeding by patricia stuartmacadam the biocultural, crosscultural, and evolutionary perspective to breastfeeding adopted in this book illustrates how behavior can and does affect biology and highlights the physiological interdependence between mother and infant. A catalogue record for this publication is available from the british library library of congress cataloguing in publication data exploring the differences. Biocultural anthropology ebooks read ebooks online. The protagonists ignorance of the female experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation is an effect of her objectification within the. This chapter brings together perspectives on cooperative breastfeeding and human milk feeding from biological anthropology, history, cultural anthropology, and global public health. From biocultural homogenization to biocultural conservation.
The cultural context of breastfeeding in the united states, from breastfeeding. Girls have breasts to look attractive and grown up, claims. Biocultural perspectives foundations of human behavior 1 by stuartmacadam, patricia isbn. Breastfeeding biocultural perspectives edited by contributing authors patricia stuartmacadam and katherine a. The troy university libraries help the university fulfill its mission by providing access to. It points the way forward to a better understanding of childhood as a dynamic lived experience both physically and socially. As such, it has important implications for understanding the past. Biocultural perspectives foundations of human behaviorby hardcover jan 3, 1995category. Biocultural perspectives by stuartmacadam, patricia. New anthropological approaches unites sociocultural, biological, and archaeological anthropological scholarship to spark new conversations and research about breastfeeding. It contains a close look at the biological history of breastfeeding, explaining how it is thought that breastfeeding has evolved to protect infants and children, why it is important to breastfeed, and how women in the distant past breastfed or not and the. Chapters present research on a variety of topics by well known authorspeakers in the lactation field. Breastfeeding is perceived to be essential for child health and continued breastfeeding until two years or beyond is commonly reported by urban and rural caregivers, as well as by health workers.
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