1st Edition
Anthropology of Breast-Feeding Natural Law or Social Construct
Edited By Vanessa Maher
Copyright 1992
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
V. Maher, Breast-Feeding in Cross-cultural Perspective: Paradoxes and Proposals - M.-L. Creyghton, Breast-Feeding and Baraka in Northern Tunisia - F. Balsamo, G. De Mari, V. Maher, and R. Serini, Production and Pleasure: Research on Breast-Feeding in Turin - K. Hastrup, A Question of Reason: Breast-Feeding Patterns in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Iceland - J. Khatib-Chahidi, Milk Kinship in Shi'ite Islamic Iran - C. Panter-Brick, Working Mothers in Rural Nepal - V. Maher, Breast-Feeding and Maternal Depletion: Natural Law or Cultural Arrangements?
Biography
Vanessa A Maher Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology,University of Turin, former Research Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford
"This is a fascinating, thoughtful book. - Nursing Times ...a valuable addition to the excellent ""Cross-cultural Perspectives on Women"" series. - Choice ...is a book of cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary significance. - West Africa The book takes its place among recent anthropological literature that locates the occurrence of natural, universal phenomena squarely in a social context. - JASO"
