Overview
- assess a series of inter-related research topics/themes, including early life stress, infant feeding practices, social and cognitive interactions and development and responses to infant death
- uses multiple anthropological approaches in order to develop a holistic biocultural understanding of the mother-infant relationship and broader repercussions for population well-being
- contributors are world-leading scholars as well as emerging leaders in different sub-disciplines of anthropology and whose research is breaking new methodological and theoretical ground in investigating mother-infant relationships
Part of the book series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory (BST)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Infant and Maternal Health in Bioarchaeology
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Social and Cognitive Interactions in Early Life
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Rupturing the Nexus: Infant Loss in the Archaeological Record
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About this book
This is particularly topical because there is a burgeoning awareness within anthropology regarding the centrality of mother-infant interactions for understanding the evolution of our species, infant and maternal health and care strategies, epigenetic change, and biological and social development.
This book will bring together cultural and biological anthropologists and archaeologists to examine the infant-maternal interface in past societies. It will showcase innovative theoretical and methodological approaches towards understanding societal constructions of foetal, infant and maternal bodies. It will emphasise their interconnectivity and will explore the broader significance of the mother/infant nexus for overall population well-being.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rebecca Gowland is an Associate Professor in Human Bioarchaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Durham University. Her research focuses on the inter-relationship between the body and society in the past and she is particularly interested in the life course and age as an aspect of social identity. She has co-edited the Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains (2006, Oxbow) and Care in the Past: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (in press, Oxbow), and has co-authored Human Identity and Identification (2013, CUP). In addition, she has published widely in peer-reviewed journals on methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of skeletal remains. Rebecca teaches bioarchaeology, with a particular emphasis on palaeopathology, to undergraduate and postgraduate students
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology
Book Subtitle: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes
Editors: Rebecca Gowland, Siân Halcrow
Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27392-7Published: 15 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27395-8Published: 15 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27393-4Published: 25 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2567-6776
Series E-ISSN: 2567-6814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 284
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour