The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology, 1st ed. 2020 Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes Bioarchaeology and Social Theory Series
Rebecca Gowland is an Associate Professor in Human Bioarchaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Durham University. Her research focuses on the inter-relationship between the body and society in the past and she is particularly interested in the life course and age as an aspect of social identity. She has co-edited the Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains (2006, Oxbow) and Care in the Past: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (in press, Oxbow), and has co-authored Human Identity and Identification (2013, CUP). In addition, she has published widely in peer-reviewed journals on methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of skeletal remains. Rebecca teaches bioarchaeology, with a particular emphasis on palaeopathology, to undergraduate and postgraduate students
assess a series of inter-related research topics/themes, including early life stress, infant feeding practices, social and cognitive interactions and development and responses to infant death
uses multiple anthropological approaches in order to develop a holistic biocultural understanding of the mother-infant relationship and broader repercussions for population well-being
contributors are world-leading scholars as well as emerging leaders in different sub-disciplines of anthropology and whose research is breaking new methodological and theoretical ground in investigating mother-infant relationships
Date de parution : 11-2020
Ouvrage de 284 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 11-2019
Ouvrage de 284 p.
15.5x23.5 cm