ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wet Nurse, Prehistoric Art, Cultural Ecology
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Eco reasons, soc, time: primates many hypothesis, mothers not breastfeeding are mostly foraging. Issue of pop control (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:373)ake (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies if she does(cid:374)(cid:859)t feed. Breastfeeding in n america: 1940-1970: biggest decline in breastfeeding initiation and duration, breastfeeding considered messy, impolite in public, might ruin the shape of breasts, does(cid:374)(cid:859)t do it. Idea of formula feeding being more convenient: formula feeding considered more (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)ie(cid:374)t, (cid:862)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)(cid:863, ethical issues, what can be added to it, explaining increasing trends in bottle-feeding, wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s desi(cid:396)e to (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol thei(cid:396) o(cid:449)(cid:374) ti(cid:373)e & a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ities, commercial pressures/campaigns. Information about breast-feeding: ad(cid:448)e(cid:396)tised (cid:858)(cid:395)uality(cid:859) of fo(cid:396)(cid:373)ula, economic demands, problems with lactation, biomedical intervention and its unintended consequences, openness and acceptance of nursing mothers & infants. Fetal programming: developmental origins of health and disease, nutrition and weight mgm for enduring pregnancies have various effects on babies. Intrauterine env can have a massive affect: key idea: human phenotypes contain plasticity.
