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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b3617861.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Breast-feeding in cross-cultural perspective : paradoxes and proposals / Vanessa Maher -- Breast-feeding and baraka in northern Tunisia / Marie-Louise Creyghton -- Production and pleasure : research on breast-feeding in Turin / Franca Balsamo ... [et al.] -- A question of reason : breast-feeding patterns in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Iceland / Kirsten Hastrup -- Milk kinship in Shi'ite Islamic Iran / Jane Khatib-Chahidi -- Working mothers in rural Nepal / Catherine Panter-Brick -- Breast-feeding and maternal depletion : natural law or cultural arrangements? / Vanessa Maher.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 185 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Anthropology of breast-feeding.".
- catalog identifier "0854967214".
- catalog identifier "0854968148 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Anthropology of breast-feeding.".
- catalog isPartOf "Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; [v. 3]".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; Providence : Berg ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog relation "Anthropology of breast-feeding.".
- catalog subject "392/.13 20".
- catalog subject "Breast Feeding ethnology.".
- catalog subject "Breastfeeding Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "Cross-Cultural Comparison.".
- catalog subject "RJ216 .A58 1992".
- catalog subject "WS125 .A584".
- catalog subject "Women Social conditions Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Breast-feeding in cross-cultural perspective : paradoxes and proposals / Vanessa Maher -- Breast-feeding and baraka in northern Tunisia / Marie-Louise Creyghton -- Production and pleasure : research on breast-feeding in Turin / Franca Balsamo ... [et al.] -- A question of reason : breast-feeding patterns in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Iceland / Kirsten Hastrup -- Milk kinship in Shi'ite Islamic Iran / Jane Khatib-Chahidi -- Working mothers in rural Nepal / Catherine Panter-Brick -- Breast-feeding and maternal depletion : natural law or cultural arrangements? / Vanessa Maher.".
- catalog title "The Anthropology of breast-feeding : natural law or social construct / edited by Vanessa Maher.".
- catalog type "Cross-cultural studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".