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Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing
practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of
medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful
biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact
to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique
constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance
of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political
economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the
metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve
infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy
groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although
individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold,
piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions.
One is that activity disorders-dieting, exercising, healthy
eating-start as virtuous practices, but become addictive
obsessions. The other affliction is a developmental disorder, which
also starts with the virtuous-those eager for challenge and change.
But these overachievers who seek self-improvement get a distorted
life instead. Knowing anorexia from inside, the recovered offer two
watchwords on helping those who suffer. One is "negotiate," to
encourage compromise, which can aid recovery where coercion fails.
The other is "balance," for the ill to pursue mind-with-body
activities to defuse mind-over-body battles.
Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing
practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of
medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful
biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact
to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique
constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance
of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political
economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the
metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve
infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy
groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
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