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The Dance of Nurture: Negotiating Infant Feeding

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The Dance of Nurture: Negotiating Infant Feeding - Esterik, Penny Van, and O'Connor, Richard A.
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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 ...

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The Dance of Nurture: Negotiating Infant Feeding 2022, Berghahn Books, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781800734562

Paperback

The Dance of Nurture: Negotiating Infant Feeding 2017, Berghahn Books, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781785335624

Hardcover