Table of Contents
Attachment
Cooper, P., Tomlinson, M., Swartz, L., Landman, M., Molteno, C., Stein, A., McPherson, K., and L. Murray 2009 Improving quality of mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in socioeconomically deprived community in South Africa: randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal 338: 974-82.
Faircloth C. 2011 ‘It feels right in my heart’: affective accountability in narratives of attachment. The Sociological Review 59(2):283-302.
Tomlinson, M., Cooper, P., and L. Murray. 2005 Mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in a South African peri-urban settlement. Child Development 76(5):1044-1054.
Baby
Gottlieb, Alma 2000 Where have all the babies gone? Toward an anthropology of Infants (and their caretakers). Anthropological Quarterly 73(3): 121-132.
Lupton, Deborah 2011 ‘The best thing for the baby’: Mothers’ concepts and experiences related to promoting their infants’ health and development. Health, Risk and Society 13(7-8): 637-651.
Remennick, Larissa 2006 The quest for the perfect baby: why do Israeli women seek prenatal genetic testing? Sociology of Health and Illness 28 (1): 21-53.
Birth
Davis-Floyd, R., and C. Sargent 1996 Introduction. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10(2): 111-120.
Greenhalgh, Susan 2003 Planned births, unplanned persons: “Population” in the making of Chinese modernity. American Ethnologist 30(2):196-215
Lori, J., and J. Boyle 2011 Cultural childbirth practices, beliefs, and traditions in postconflict Liberia. Health Care for Women International 32:454-473.
Obermeyer, Carla 2000 Pluralism and pragmatism: Knowledge and practice of birth in Morocco. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14(2):180-201.
Parry, Diana 2008 “We wanted a birth experience, not a medical experience”: Exploring Canadian women’s use of midwifery. Health Care for Women International 29:784-806.
Breastfeeding
Avery, M., Duckett, L., and C, Frantzich. 2000 The experience of sexuality during breastfeeding among primiparous women. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health 45(3):227-236.
Avishai, Orit 2007 Managing the lactating body: The breast-feeding project and privileged motherhood. Qualitative Sociology 30:135-152.
Baker, S., Choi, P., Henshaw, C., and J. Tree. 2005 ‘I felt as though I’d been in jail’: Women’s experiences of maternity care during labour, delivery and the immediate postpartum. Feminism and Psychology 15:315-342.
Biehl, J., and A. Moran-Thomas 2009 Symptom: Subjectivity, social ills, technologies. Annual review of Anthropology 38: 267-88.
Bove, R., Valeggia, C., and P. Ellison 2002 Girl helpers and time allocation of nursing women among the Toba of Argentina. Human Nature 13(4):457-472.
Chan, K., Brownridge, D., Tiwari, A., Fong, D., Leung, W., and P. Ho. 2011 Associating Pregnancy with partner violence against Chinese women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 26(7):1478-1500.
Crossley, Michele 2009 Breastfeeding as a moral imperative: An autoethnographic study. Feminism and Psychology 19(1):71-87.
Dykes, Fiona 2005 ‘Supply’ and ‘demand’: Breastfeeding as labour. Social Science and Medicine60:2283-2293.
Dykes, F., and R. Flacking 2010 Encouraging breastfeeding: A relational perspective. Early Human Development 86:733-736.
Faircloth, Charlotte 2009 Mothering as identity-work: Long-term breastfeeding and intensive motherhood. Anthropology News: 15-17.
Galtry, Judith 2003 The impact of breastfeeding of labour market policy and practice in Ireland, Sweden, and the USA. Social Science and Medicine 57:167-177.
Hausman, Bernice 2004 The feminist politics of breastfeeding. Australian Feminist Studies 19(45):273-285.
Kukla, Rebecca 2006 Ethics and ideology in breastfeeding advocacy campaigns. Hypatia 21(1):157-180
Lupton, Deborah 2000 ‘A love/hate relationship’: the ideals and experiences of first-time mothers. Journal of Sociology 36(1):50-63.
Mahgoub, S., Bandeke, T., and M. Nnyepi 2002 Breastfeeding in Botswana: Practices, attitudes, patterns, and the socio-cultural factors affecting them. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 48: 195-199
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Mahon-Daly, P. and G. Andrews. 2002 Liminality and breastfeeding: women negotiating space and two bodies. Health and Place 8:61-76.
Marshall, J., Godfrey, M., and M. Renfrew 2007 Being a ‘good mother’: Managing breastfeeding and merging identities. Social Science and Medicine 65:2147-2159.
Murphy, Elizabeth 1999 ‘Breast is best’: Infant feeding decisions and maternal deviance. Sociology of Health and Illness 21(2):187-208.
Murphy, Elizabeth 2003 Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families. The Sociological Review:433-462.
Quinlan, R., Quinlan, M., and M. Flinn 2005 Local resource enhancement and sex-biased breastfeeding in a Caribbean community. Current Anthropology 46(3):471-480.
Scavenius, M., Van Hulsel, L., Meijer, J., Wendte, H., and R. Gurgel. 2007 In practice, the theory is different: A processual analysis of breastfeeding in northeast Brazil. Social Science and Medicine 64:676-688.
Schmied, V. and D. Lupton 2001 Blurring the boundaries: breastfeeding and maternal subjectivity. Sociology of Health and Illness 23(2):234-250.
Shaw, Rhonda 2003 Theorizing breastfeeding: Body ethics, maternal generosity and the gift. Body and Society 9(2):55-73.
Stearns, Cindy 1999 Breastfeeding and the good maternal body. Gender and Society 13(3):308-325.
Sutherland, Katherine 1999 Of milk and miracles: Nursing, the life drive, and subjectivity. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 20(2):1-20.
Taylor, E. and L. Wallace 2012 For shame: Feminism, breastfeeding advocacy, and maternal guilt. Hypatia 27(1):76-98.
Tomori, Cecilia 2011 The Moral Dilemmas of Nighttime Breastfeeding: Crafting Kinship, Personhood and Capitalism in the U.S. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Van Esterik, Penny 2002 Contemporary trends in infant feeding research. Annual Review of Anthropology 31:257-278.
Wall, Glenda 2001 Moral construction of motherhood in breastfeeding discourse. Gender and Society 15(4):592-610.
Child
Colls, R., and K. Horschelmann. 2009 Editorial: The geographies of children’s and young people’s bodies. Children’s Geographies 7(1):1-6.
Gibbons, Ann 2008 The birth of childhood. Science 322:1040-1043.
Gupta, Akhil 2002 Reliving childhood? The temporality of childhood and narratives of reincarnation. Ethnos 67(1):33-56.
Howell, Signe 2009 Adoption of the unrelated child: Some challenges to the anthropological study of kinship. Annual Review of Anthropology 38:149-166.
Lee, Nick 2008 Awake, asleep, adult, child: An a-humanist account of persons. Body and Society 14(4):57-74.
Marx, G. and V. Steeves 2010 From the beginning: Children as subjects and agents of surveillance. Surveillance and Society 7(3/4):192-230.
Murphy, Elizabeth N.d. Images of childhood in mothers’ accounts of contemporary childrearing. Unpublished, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham
Uprichard, Emma 2008 Children as ‘being and becomings’: Children, childhood and temporality. Children and Society 22:303-313.
Embryos and Genetics
Arsdale, Adam 2013 A shifting theoretical framework for biological anthropology in 2012. American Anthropologist 115(2):262-272.
Bestard, Joan 2004 Kinship and the new genetics. The changing meaning of biogenetic substance. Social Anthropology 12(3):253-263.
Finlay, Nyree 2013 Archaeologies of the beginnings of life. World Archaeology.
Franklin, Sarah 2006 Origin stories revisited: IVF as an anthropological project. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 30:547-555.
Franklin, Sarah 2006 The cyborg embryo: Our path to transbiology. Theory Culture Society 23(7-8):167-187.
Franklin, Sarah 2003 Re-thinking nature-culture: Anthropology and the new genetics. Anthropological Theory 3(1): 65-85.
Gettler, L. and J. McKenna 2010 Evolutionary perspectives on mother-infant sleep proximity and breastfeeding in a laboratory setting. American Journal of Physical Anthropology:1-9
Hofer, Myron 2005 The psychobiology of early attachment. Clinical Neuroscience Research:1-10
Hofer, Myron 2006 Psychobiological roots of early attachment. Current Directions in Psychological Science 15(2):84-88.
Hogle, Linda 2010 Characterizing human embryonic stem cells: biological and social markers of identity. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(4):433-450.
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Jablonka, E. and M. Lamb 2002 The changing concept of epigenetics. Annual New York Academy of Sciences 981:82-96.
Kashmeri, Shireen 2008 Unraveling Surrogacy in Ontario, Canada. An Ethnographic Inquiry on the Influence of Canada’s Assisted Human Reproductive Act (2004), Surrogacy Contracts, Parentage Laws, and Gay Fatherhood. M.A. Thesis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University.
Konrad, Monica 1998 Ova donation and symbols of substance: Some variations on the theme of sex, gender and the partible body. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4(4):643-667.
Kuzawa, C. and Z. Thayer 2011 Timescales of human adaptation: the role of epigenetic processes. Epigenomics 3(2):221-234.
Levine, Nancy 2008 Alternative kinship, marriage and reproduction. Annual Review of Anthropology 37:375-389.
Maher, E. Afnan, M. and C. Barratt 2003 Epigenetic risks related to assisted reproductive technologies: Epigenetics, imprinting, ART and icebergs. Human Reproduction 18(12):2508-2511.
McKenna, J., Ball, H., and L. Gettler 2007 Mother-infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: What biological anthropology has discovered about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 50:133-161.
Morgan, Lynn 2002 “Properly disposed of”: A history of embryo disposal and the changing claims on fetal remains. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 21(3-4): 247-274.
Niemitz, E. and A. Feinberg 2004 Epigenetics and assisted reproductive technology: A call for investigation. American Journal of Human Genetics 74:599-609.
Orobitg, G. and C. Salazar 2005 The gift of motherhood: Egg donation in a Barcelona infertility clinic. Ethnos 70(1): 31-52.
Parasidis, Efthimios The essence of being human. The Minnesora Journal of Law, Science and Technology. 13(1).
Roberts, Elizabeth 2011 Abandonment and accumulation: Embryonic futures in the United States and Ecuador. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25(2):232-253.
Simpson, Bob 2000 Imagined genetic communities: ethnicity and essentialism in the twenty-first century. Anthropology Today 16(3): 3-6.
Svendsen, Mette 2011 Articulating potentiality: Notes on the delineation of the bank figure in human embryonic stem cell research. Cultural Anthropology 26(3):414-437.
White, Linda 2004 Reproductive rights: Technologies of reproduction. Anthropology News: 15-18.
Whitelaw, Emma 2006 Sins of the fathers, and their fathers. European Journal of Human Genetics 14:131-132.
Ethics
Beasley, C. and Bacchi, C. 2007 Envisaging a new politics for an ethical future: Beyond trust, care and generosity – towards an ethic of ‘social flesh’. Feminist Theory 8(3):279-298.
Chistianson, S. A., Ed. 1992The handbook of emotion and memory: Research and theory. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Dreyfus, Hubert, and Paul Rabinow. 1982. “On the Geneology of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress.” In Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Dreyfus, eds. Pp. 229–52. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Einarsdottir, Johanna 2007 Research with children: Methodological and ethical challenges. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal 15(2):197-211.
Ellis, Carolyn 1995 Emotional and ethical quagmires in returning to the field. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 24(1):68-98.
Eysenbach, G. and J. Till 2001 Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities. British Medical Journal 323:1103-1105.
Flicker, S., Travers, R., Guta, A., McDonald, S. and A. Meagher 2007 Ethical dilemmas in community-based participatory research: Recommendations for institutional review boards. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 84(4):478-493.
Guillemin, M. and L. Gillam 2004 Ethics, reflexivity, and “ethically important moments” in research. Qualitative Inquiry 10:261-280.
Halse, C. and A. Honey 2005 Unraveling ethics: Illuminating the moral dilemmas of research ethics. Signs 30(4):2141-2162.
Kalvemark, S., Hoglund, A., Hansson, M., Westerholm, P., and B. Arnetz 2003 Living with conflicts-ethical dilemmas and moral distress in the health care system. Social Science and Medicine 58:1075-1084.
Kelman, Herbert 1982 Ethical issues in different social science methods. In Ethical Issues in Social Science Research. T. L. Beauchamp, R.R. Faden, R.J. Wallace and L. Walters, Eds. Pp. 40-98. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Morrow, Virginia 2008 Ethical dilemmas in research with children and young people about their social environments. Children’s Geographies 6(1):49-61.
Muller, J. and B. Desmond 1992 Cross-cultural medicine a decade later: Ethical dilemmas in a cross-cultural context – A Chinese example. West Journal of Medicine 157:323-327.
Pope, K. and V. Vetter Ethical dilemmas encountered by members of the American Psychological Association: A national survey.
Tronto, Joan 1999 Review of Care ethics: Moving forward caring. Gender Sensitive by Peta Bowden; Care, Gender, and Justice by Piemut Bubeck; Moral voices, moral selves by Susan Hekman. In Hypatia 14(1):112-119.
Wood, Elizabeth 2006 The ethical challenges of field research in conflict zones. Qualitative Sociology: Special Issue-Political Ethnography I 29:373-386.
Zigon, Jarrett 2007 Moral breakdown and the ethical demand: A theoretical framework for an anthropology of moralities. Anthropological Theory 7(2):131-150.
Infant
Brownlie, J. and V. Leith 2011 Social bundles: Thinking through the infant body. Childhood 18(2):196-210.
Cooper, P., Tomlinson, M., Swartz, L., Landman, M., Molteno, C., Stein, A., McPherson, K., and L. Murray. 2009 Improving quality of mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in socioeconomically deprived community in South Africa: Randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal 338: 974-982.
Lee, Ellie 2008 Living with risk in the age of ‘intensive motherhood’: Maternal identity and infant feeding. Health, Risk and Society 10(5): 467-477.
Lupton, Deborah 2012 Configuring maternal, preborn and infant embodiment: Sydney health and society group working paper no. 2. Sydney: Sydney Health and Society Group.
Lupton, Deborah N.d. Precious, pure, uncivilized, vulnerable: Infant embodiment in the popular media. Media, Culture and Society. Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney.
Lupton, Deborah 2013 Infant embodiment and interembodiment: A review of sociocultural perspectives. Childhood 20(1):37-50.
Miscellaneous
Das, V. and R. Das 2006 Pharmaceuticals in Urban Ecologies: The register of the local. In Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices. Petryna, Lakoff, Kleinman, eds. Pp. 171- 206. Durham: Duke University Press.
Kaufman, S. and L. Morgan 2005 The anthropology of the beginnings and ends of life. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:317-341.
Nystrom, K. and K. Ohrling 2004 Parenthood experiences during the child’s first year: Literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing 46(3):319-330.
Anderson, Thor 2013 Review of The jaguar and the priest: An ethnography of Tzeltal souls. American Anthropologist 115 (1): 145-152.
Motherhood
AbuZahr, Carla 2003 Safe motherhood: A brief history of the global movement 1947-2002. British Medical Bulletin 67:13-25.
Ketler, Suzanne 2000 Preparing for motherhood: Authoritative knowledge and the undercurrents of shared experience in two childbirth education courses in Cagliari, Italy. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14(2):138-158.
Lee, Ellie 2008 Living with risk in the age of ‘intensive motherhood’: Maternal identity and infant feeding. Health, Risk and Society 10(5):467-477.
Obermeyer, Carla 2000 Risk, uncertainty and agency: Culture and safe motherhood in Morocco. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 19(2):173-201.
Prussing, Erica 2010 Review of Reconstructing motherhood and disability in the age of “perfect” babies. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(3): 422-424.
Newborn
Buchbinder, Mara 2011 Medical technologies and the dream of the perfect newborn. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 30(1):56-80.
Pregnancy
Lahood, Greg 2007 Rumour of angels and heavenly midwives: Anthropology of transpersonal events and childbirth. Women and Birth 20:3-10.
Morrissey, Suzanne 2010 Metaphors of relief: High risk pregnancy in a context of health policy for the “undeserving” poor. Human Organization 69 (4):352-361.
Muller-Rockstroh, Babette 2012 Appropriate and appropriated technology: Lessons learned from ultrasound in Tanzania. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 31(3): 196-212.
Root, R. and C. Browner 2001 Practices of the pregnant self: Compliance with and resistance to prenatal norms. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 25:195-223.
Van der Sijpt, E. and C. Notemans 2010 Perils to pregnancies: On social sorrows and strategies surrounding pregnancy loss in Cameroon. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(3):381-398.
Prenatal
Press, N. and C. Browner 1996 The production of authoritative knowledge in American prenatal care. Medical Anthropology Quarterly New Series 10(2):141-156.
Rights
Alderson, P., Hawthorne, J. and M. Killen 2005 Are Premature Babies Citizens with Rights? Provision Rights and the Edges of Citizenship. Journal of Social Sciences Special Issue 9: 71-81.
Cornock, M. and H. Montgomery 2011 Children’s rights in and out of the womb. International Journal of Children’s Rights 19:3-19.
Attachment
Cooper, P., Tomlinson, M., Swartz, L., Landman, M., Molteno, C., Stein, A., McPherson, K., and L. Murray 2009 Improving quality of mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in socioeconomically deprived community in South Africa: randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal 338: 974-82.
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Objective: To assess the efficacy of an intervention designed to improve the mother-infant relationship and security of infant attachment in a South African peri-urban settlement with marked adverse socioeconomic circumstances.
Design: Randomised controlled trial.
Setting: Khayelitsha, a peri-urban settlement in South Africa.
Participants: 449 pregnant women.
Interventions: The intervention was delivered from late pregnancy and for six months postpartum. Women were visited in their homes by previously untrained lay community workers who provided support and guidance in parenting. The purpose of the intervention was to promote sensitive and responsive parenting and secure infant attachment to the mother. Women in the control group received no therapeutic input from the research team. Main outcome measures: Primary outcomes: quality of mother-infant interactions at six and 12 months postpartum; infant attachment security at 18 months. Secondary outcome: maternal depression at six and 12 months. Results: The intervention was associated with significant benefit to the mother-infant relationship. At both six and 12 months, compared with control mothers, mothers in the intervention group were significantly more sensitive (6 months: mean difference=0.77 (SD 0.37), t=2.10, P<0.05, d=0.24; 12 months: mean difference=0.42 (0.18), t=−2.04 , P<0.05, d=0.26) and less intrusive (6 months: mean difference=0.68 (0.36), t=2.28, P<0.05, d=0.26; 12 months: mean difference=−1.76 (0.86), t=2.28 , P<0.05, d=0.24) in their interactions with their infants. The intervention was also associated with a higher rate of secure infant attachments at 18 months (116/156 (74%) v 102/162 (63%); Wald=4.74, odds ratio=1.70, P<0.05). Although the prevalence of maternal depressive disorder was not significantly reduced, the intervention had a benefit in terms of maternal depressed mood at six months (z=2.05, P=0.04) on the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale). Conclusions: The intervention, delivered by local lay women, had a significant positive impact on the quality of the mother-infant relationship and on security of infant attachment, factors known to predict favourable child development. If these effects persist, and if they are replicated, this intervention holds considerable promise for use in the developing world.
Faircloth C. 2011 ‘It feels right in my heart’: affective accountability in narratives of attachment. The Sociological Review59(2):283-302.
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This article makes a contribution to discussions around ‘affect’ in the social sciences (Clough and Halley, 2007; Connolly, 1999; Massumi, 2002). It emerges from a research project involving a network of mothers – in London – who breastfeed their children to ‘full term’. Typically, this would be up to the age of three or four, though ranged, in this case, to between one and eight years old. For many women, the most fundamental reasoning in their decision to breastfeed to ‘full term’ is that it simply ‘feels right.’ The article therefore explores anthropological approaches to the ‘feelings’ that embodied experiences generate, as revealed in the accounts and practices of the people we work with (whether at the physiological, emotional or moral levels). It considers various means of describing the feelings experienced by women during of long-term breastfeeding – such as ‘hormones’, ‘instinct’ and ‘intuition’ – but ultimately argues for a theoretical framework of ‘affect’ to incorporate best the combined physiological and moral aspects of ‘doing what feels right in my heart,’ so critical to women’s perceptions of themselves as mothers.