Feeding, Bonding, and the Formation of Social Relationships: Ethnographic Challenges to Attachment Theory and Early Childhood Interventions

ISBN-13: 9781009306270 / Angielski

Leberecht Funk; Gabriel Scheidecker; Bambi L. Chapin

Opis

This Element argues that feeding practices can lead to qualitatively distinct forms of relationships. It calls for the expansion of attachment theory to include feeding and body-centered caregiving and significant changes to global interventions currently based on 'responsive feeding.' This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Spis treści

1. Perspectives on feeding and bonding: an introduction; 2. Forming kin attachments during mealtime in rural Morocco; 3. From breast milk to ancestral blessings: feeding through the life course in a pastoralist community of Madagascar; 4. Learning about hierarchy through hand-feeding in Sri Lanka; 5. Feeding and food-giving as a proactive caregiving system among the Tao in Taiwan; 6. Attachment formation through breastfeeding and feeding: insights from urban middle-class families in San José, Costa Rica; 7. Comparison of results and theoretical analysis; 8. Conclusions, implications, and the politics of feeding children; References; About the authors.