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The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology

The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology


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Foreword.- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Mother/Infant Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology.- Section 1. Infant and maternal health in bioarchaeology.- Chapter 2. Assessing early life stress in bioarchaeology: New approaches to understanding the vulnerable maternal-fetal relationship.- Chapter 3. Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating perinatal and maternal health stress in Post-Medieval London.- Chapter 4. The mother-offspring nexus revealed by linear enamel hypoplasia: Chronological and contextual evaluation of developmental stress using incremental microstructures of enamel.- Section 2. Nourishment and the Nexus.- Chapter 5. The ecology of breastfeeding and mother-infant immune functions.- Chapter 6. What doesn't kill you: Childhood health, nutrition, and parental investment in early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia.- Chapter 7. Cooperative Lactation and the Maternal-Infant Nexus.- Section 3. Social and cognitive interactions in early life.- Chapter 8. Mothering Tongues: Anthropological Perspectives on Language and the Mother-Infant Nexus.- Chapter 9. The Mother-Infant Sleep Nexus: night-time experiences in early infancy and later outcomes.- Chapter 10. Moving beyond the Obstetrical Dilemma Hypothesis: Birth, weaning and infant care in the Plio-Pleistocene.- Section 4. Rupturing the nexus: infant loss in the archaeological record.- Chapter 11. Using bone histology to identify stillborn and short-lived infants in the archaeological record.- Chapter 12. Archaeothanatology as a Tool for Interpreting Death During Pregnancy: A Proposed Methodology Using Examples from Medieval Ireland.- Chapter 13. Touching the Surface: Biological, behavioral, and emotional aspects of plagiocephaly at Harappa.- Chapter 14. Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course.- Chapter 15. Conclusions and Future Directions.- Index.

About the Author:

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

Siân Halcrow is an Associate Professor in Bioarchaeology at the University of Otago, with a research focus on infant and child stress and disease in the past and social aspects of childhood. She manages the skeletal analyses on several international archaeological projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, China and Chile. Dr Halcrow's research is funded through sources including the NZ Royal Society Marsden fund, University of Otago Research Grants, and Fulbright NZ. She is also a Partner Investigator on Australian Council Research Grants. She has published widely on infant and child bioarchaeology, and teaches undergraduate health science and biological anthropology courses, and a postgraduate bioarchaeological course.​


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783030273958
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 284
  • Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
  • Sub Title: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3030273954
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 476 gr


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