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The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology, 1st ed. 2020
Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes
Bioarchaeology and Social Theory Series
Language: EnglishSubject for The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology:
Publication date: 11-2020
284 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2019
Support: Print on demand
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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