The mother-infant nexus in anthropology : small beginnings, significant outcomes /: small beginnings, significant outcomes. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rebecca Gowland, Siân Halcrow, editors.
• Editors: Gowland, Rebecca; Halcrow, Siân
• Contents: 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 doesnt 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 284 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 155.422; Mother and infant; Motherhood; Physical anthropology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030273934; 3030273938
• Related ISBNs: 9783030273927
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 30, 2019).
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