The Dance of Nurture

The Dance of NurtureBreastfeeding 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

specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored

to identify areas for future translational research

This practical resource encompasses such methodologies as content analysis

Suggesting he knows more than he does about herbs and other native ingredients

The first part of the chapter concentrates on the potential of animal health to affect the environmental impact of livestock systems

The papers reflect a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject

This book presents new and original insights into the political

In this book James Scorer argues that culture remains a force for imagining inclusive urban futures based around what inhabitants of the city have in common

Contributors address such genres as biography

as well as more than twenty-five different institutions across the state

Sweeping in scope and deeply personal in nature

The book emphasizes the many oft-overlooked comical renderings of history and asks what they have to tell us if we begin to take them seriously