FOOD AND CULTURE

Mothers, Infants, and Children

Abada TSJ; Trovato F; Lalu N (2001) Determinants of Breastfeeding in the Philippines: A Survival Analysis. Social Science and Medicine. "Cooking" (Nepal; © Charo Diez)52:71-81 [breastfeeding; culture change; economy; Southeast Asia].

Aborampah O (1985) Determinants of Breast-Feeding and Post-Partum Sexual Abstinence: Analysis of a Sample of Yoruba Women, Western Nigeria. Journal of Biosocial Science. 17:461-469 [infant feeding; Africa].

Agyei W (1984) Breastfeeding and Sexual Abstinence in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Biosocial Science. 16:451-461 [infant feeding; Oceania].

Ahmed F; Zareen M; Jackson AA (1998) Dietary Pattern, Nutrient Intake and Growth of Adolescent School Girls in Urban Bangladesh. Public Health Nutrition. 1:83- [dietary pattern; child nutrition; South Asia; Bangladesh].

Al-Kanhal MA; Bani IA (1995) Food Habits During Pregnancy among Saudi Women. International Journal of Vitamin and Nutrition Research. 65:206-210 [maternal nutrition; Middle East; Saudi Arabia].

Almedom AM (1991) Infant Feeding in Urban Low-Income Households in Ethiopia. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 25:97-109 [infant nutrition; Africa].

Anderson P (1983) The Reproductive Role of the Human Breast. Current Anthropology. 24:25-45 [human evolution; breastfeeding].

Bamji M; Thimayamma BVS (2000) Impact of Women's Work on Maternal and Child Nutrition. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 39:13- [maternal, child nutrition].

Barlow K (1984) The Social Context of Infant Feeding in the Murik Lakes of Papua, New Guinea. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 15:61-72 [social relations; infant feeding; Oceania; New Guinea].

Barrett D; Frank D (1987) The Effects of Undernutrition on Children's Behavior. Gordon and Breach [starvation; children].

Barry H (1959) Relation of Child Training to Subsistence Economy. American Anthropologist. 61:51-63 [food system; enculturation; children].

Bentley M; Pelto G (1991) The Household Production of Nutrition. Social Science and Medicine. 33:1101-1102 [change; household; child nutrition; Africa; Nigeria].

Bindon JR (1994) Some Implications of the Diet of Children in American Samoa. Collegium Anthropologicum. 18 [change; ecology; child nutrition; Oceania; Samoa].

Birch L (1999) Development of Food Preferences. Annual Review of Nutrition. 19:41-62 [preferences; children; obesity; North America; United States].

Birch LL (1992) Children's Preference for High Fat Foods. Nutrition Reviews. 50:249-255 [child nutrition; food selection].

Bohler E; Ingstad B (1996) The Struggle of Weaning: Factors Determining Breastfeeding Duration in East Bhutan. Social Science and Medicine. 43:1805-1815 [infant feeding; pregnancy beliefs; South Asia].

Bond JT (1981) Infant and Child Feeding. Academic Press [collected essays; history; lactation; breastfeeding; formula; nutrition].

Borigato E; Martinez F (1998) Iron Nutritional Status Is Improved in Brazilian Infants Fed Food Cooked in Iron Pots. The Journal of Nutrition. 128:855- [infant nutrition; iron; South America; Brazil].

Bwibo NO; Neumann CG (2003) The Need for Animal Source Foods by Kenyan Children. Journal of Nutrition. 133:3936S-3940S [child nutrition; malnutrition; meat eating; Africa; Kenya].

Carael M (1978) Relations between Birth Intervals and Nutrition in Three Central African Populations. in WH Moseley (ed) Nutrition and Human Reproduction. Plenum Press, pp. 355-384 [maternal nutrition; reproduction; Africa; Zaire].

Chavez A; Martinez C (1979) Consequences of Insufficient Nutrition on Child Character and Behavior. in D Levitsky (ed) Malnutrition, Environment and Behavior: New Perspectives. Cornell University Press [hunger; undernutrition; children].

Cohen RJ; Huddix K; Hortado E, et al. (1995) Maternal Activity Budgets: Feasibility of Exclusive Breastfeeding for Six Months among Urban Women in Honduras. Social Science and Medicine. 41:527-536 [infant feeding; time allocation; Central America].

Conton L (1985) Social, Economic and Ecological Parameters of Infant Feeding in Usino, Papua New Guinea. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 16:39-54 [nutrition; ecology; infant feeding; Oceania; New Guinea; Usino].

Recommended -- click for detailsCosminsky S; Mhloyi M; Ewbank D (1993) Child Feeding Practices in a Rural Area of Zimbabwe. Social Science and Medicine. 36:937-947 [child feeding; Africa; Zimbabwe].

Critser G (2003) Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fatest People in the World. Houghton Mifflin [obesity; culture; environment; food promotions; child nutrition; North America].

Crittendon R; Baines J (1986) Seasonal Factors Influencing Child Malnutrition on the Nembi Plateau. Human Ecology. 14:191-223 [malnutrition; seasonal hunger; children; Oceania; New Guinea; Nembi].

Crooks D (1999) Child Growth and Nutritional Status in a High-Poverty Community in Eastern Kentucky. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 109:129- [child nutrition; stress; North America; United States; Kentucky].

Crooks D (1999) Understanding Children's Nutritional Status: Combining Anthropological Approaches in Poverty Research. Nutritional Anthropology. 22:1-4 [nutritional anthropology; child nutrition; North America; United States].

Curran HV (1994) Nigerian Children: Developmental Perspectives. Routledge & Kegan Paul [collected essays; infant feeding; nutrition; Africa].

Dargent-Molina P; James SA; trogatz, et al. (1994) Association between Maternal Education and Infant Diarrhea in Different Household and Community Environments of Cebu, Philippines. Social Science and Medicine. 38:343-350 [infant feeding; health; East Asia].

Instructive and Readable -- click for detailsDavies-Adetaghs AA (1997) Sociocultural Factors and the Promotion of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Rual Yoruba Communities of Osun State Nigeria. Social Science and Medicine. 45:113-125 [infant nursing; Africa].

Dettwyler K (1993) Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Waveland [nutritional anthropology; childhood nutrition; nutritional status; ethnography; Africa; Mali; Bambara].

Dettwyler KA (1991) Growth Status of Children in Rural Mali: Implications of for Nutrition Education Programs. American Journal of Human Biology. 3:447-462 [child nutrition; growth status; nutritional education; Africa; Mali].

Dettwyler KA; Fishman C (1992) Infant Feeding Practices and Growth. Annual Reviews [breastfeeding; weaning; child development].

DeWalt KW (1980) Impact of Agricultural Development on Child Nutrition in Tabasco, Mexico. Medical Anthropology. 4:55-78- [child nutrition; economic change; Latin America; Mexico].

Dewey KG (1980) Impact of Agricultural Development on Child Nutrition in Tabasco, Mexico. Medical Anthropology. 5:22-43 [food habit change; child nutrition; Mexico].

Draper SB (1996) Breastfeeding in a Sustainable Resource System. American Anthropologist. 98:258-265 [infant feeding; ecology; economy].

Dreyfuss M; Stoltzfus R; West K (2000) Hookworms, Malaria, and Vitamin a Deficiency Contribute to Anemia and Iron Deficiency among Pregnant Women in the Plains of Nepal. Journal of Nutrition. 130:2527- [malnutrtion; disease; maternal nutrition; South Asia; Nepal].

Esterik P van (1989) Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy [breastfeeding].

Esterik P van (2002) Contemporary Trends in Infant Feeding Research. Annual Review of Anthropology. 31:257-278 [breastfeeding; infant diet; globalization].

Feyisetan BJ (1990) Postpartum Sexual Abstinence, Breastfeeding, and Child Spacing among Yoruba Women in Urban Nigeria. Social Biology. 37:110-127 [infant feeding; contraception; Africa].

Field CJ (2005) The Immunological Components of Human Milk and Their Effect on Immune Development in Infants. Journal of Nutrition. 135:1-4 [breastfeeding].

Fratkin E; Roth E; Nathan M (2004) Pastoral Sedentarization and Its Effects on Children’s Diet, Health, and Growth among Rendille of Northern Kenya. Human Ecology. 32:531-559 [pastoralism; sedentarization; child nutrition; growth; East Africa].

Frisch R (1978) Population, Food Intake and Fertility. Science. 199:22-29 [maternal nutrition; fertility; population].

Galler J; Ramsey F; Weiskopf-Bock S (1998) Infant Feeding Practices in Barbados Predict Later Growth. The Journal of Nutrition. 128:1328- [infant nutrition; Caribbean; Barbados].

Garfield R (2000) Studies on Young Child Malnutrition in Iraq: Problems and Insights, 1990-1999. Nutrition Reviews. 58:269- [child nutrition; Middle East; Iraq].

Gittelsohn J; Haberle H; Vastine AE, et al. (2003) Macro- and Microlevel Processes Affect Food Choice and Nutritional Status in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Journal of Nutrition. 133:310S-313S [food system; Westernization; obesity; child nutrition; Oceania].

Gittelsohn J; Vastine AE (2003) Sociocultural and Household Factors Impacting on the Selection, Allocation and Consumption of Animal Source Foods: Current Knowledge and Application. Journal of Nutrition. 133:4036S-4041S [food choice; proscriptions; meat eating; mother & child nutrition].

Goldman A (2000) Symposium: Bioactivity in Milk and Bacterial Interactions in the Developing Immature Intestine -- Modulation of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Infants by Human Milk. Journal of Nutrition. 130:4263- [foodstuff; human milk; child nutrition; human evolution; nutritional anthropology].

Gracey M (2000) Historical, Cultural, Political, and Social Influences on Dietary Patterns and Nutrition in Australian Aboriginal Children. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 72:1361s- [child nutrition; Australia; Aborigine].

Gray S (1996) Ecology of Weaning among Nomadic Pastoralists of Kenya: Maternal Thinking, Maternal Behaviour, and Human Adaptive Strategies. Human Biology. 68:437-462 [infant feeding; food systems; Africa].

Gray SJ (1995) Correlates of Breastfeeding Frequency among Nomadic Pastoralists of Turkana, Kenya: A Retrospective Study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 98:239-255 [infant feeding; Africa].

Greiner T; Latham M (1981) Factors Associated with Malnutrition in the Children of Western Jamaica. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 10:135-142 [nutritional disease; children; Caribbean; Jamaica].

Griffiths P; Matthews Z; Hinde A (2002) Gender, Family, and the Nutritional Status of Children in Three Culturally Contrasting States of India. Social Science and Medicine. 55:775-790 [child nutrition; South Asia].

Habicht JP; Davanzo J; Buttz WP, et al. (1985) The Contraceptive Role of Breast Feeding. Population Studies. 39:213-232 [infant nutrition; diet and health].

Harrison G; Zaghloul S; Galal O, et al. (1993) Breastfeeding and Weaning in a Poor Urban Neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt: Maternal Beliefs and Perceptions. Social Science and Medicine. 36:1063-1069 [infant feeding; North Africa].

Herrinng DA; Saunders SR; Katzenberg MA (1998) Investigating the Weaning Process in Past Populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 105:425-439 [prehistory; infant feeding].

Hoare P; Cosgrove L (1998) Eating Habits, Body Esteem and Self-Esteem in Scottish Children and Adolescents. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 45:425- [eating habits; body image; child nutrition; Europe; Scotland].

Recommended -- click for detailsHoward M (1994) Socio-Economic Causes and Cultural Explanations of Childhood Malnutrition among the Chagga of Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine. 38:239-251 [malnutrition; children; Africa; Tanzania; Chagga].

Howard M; Millard A (1997) Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro. Routledge [child malnutrition; poverty; social relations; Africa; Tanzania; Chagga].

Hull V; Simpson M (1985) Breastfeeding, Child Health, and Child Spacing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Croom Helm [collected essays; child feeding].

Hundt GA; Forman MR (1993) Interfacing Anthropology and Epidemiology: The Bedouin Arab Infant Feeding Study. Social Science and Medicine. 36:957-964 [breastfeeding; Middle East].

Hupkens C (2000) Social Class Differences in Food Consumption: The Explanatory Value of Permissiveness and Health and Cost Considerations. European Journal of Public Health. 10:108-113 [social relations; eating habits; food costs; middle class; lower class; child nutrition; Europe; Netherlands; Belgium; Germany].

Husiung PC (1995) To Nurse the Young: Breast-Feeding and Infant Feeding in Later Imperial China. Journal of Family History. 20:217-239 [history; breastfeeding; East Asia].

Ishihara J; Bobitt N; Schemmel R (1999) Typical Food Selections of Japanese Children Living in the United States: Comparison with the Recommendations of the Usda Food Guide Pyramid. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 37:503- [food selection; North America; United States; Japanese children].

Jarosz LA (1993) Liberian Practices in Feeding Infants Water, Breastmilk and First Food. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 30:240- [infant feeding; Africa].

Jayachandran J; Jarvas GK (1986) Socioeconomic Development, Medical Care, and Nutrition as Determinants of Infant Mortality in Less Developed Countries. Social Biology. 33:301-315 [infant nutrition; economic change; Third World].

Jefferson DL (1954) Child Feeding in the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 30:335-344 [history; child feeding; North America; United States].

Jelliffe D (1957) Social and Cultural Nutrition: Cultural Blocks and Protein Malnutrition in Early Childhood in Rural West Bengal. Pediatrics. 20:128-138 [food habits; malnutrition; children; South Asia; India].

Jelliffe D; Jelliffe EFP (1975) Human Milk, Nutrition and the World Resource Crisis. Science. 188:557-561 [foodstuff; infant nutrition; change].

Jelliffe D; Jelliffe EFP (1978) Human Milk in the Modern World: Psychosocial, Nutritional, and Economic Significance. Oxford University Press [foodstuff; infant nutrition; modernization and change].

Jelliffe DB; Bennett FJ (1961) Cultural and Anthropological Factors in Infant and Maternal Nutrition. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Nutrition. 20:185-188 [infant, maternal nutrition].

Jerome NW (1974) Socio-Cultural Issues Concerning Nutrition in Childhood and Adolescence. Journal of the National Medical Association. 66:355-357 [child nutrition; social involvements].

Kannan S; Carruth BR; Skinner J (1999) Cultural Influences on Infant Feeding Beliefs of Mothers. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 99:88-90 [infant nutrition; beliefs and practices].

Katona-Apte J; Mokdad A (1998) Malnutrition of Children in the Democratic People's Korea. The Journal of Nutrition. 128:1315- [malnutrition; children; East Asia; North Korea].

Indispensible Reference -- click for detailsKatzenberg MA; Herring DA; Saunders SR (1996) Weaning and Infant Mortality: Evaluating the Skeletal Evidence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 23:177-199 [archaeology; osteology; infant feeding].

Kennedy E; Haddad L (2000) The Nutrition of Women in the Developing World. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1439-1443 [nutritional anthropology; maternal, infant nutrition; household relations].

Kibayanshi E; Yamagami T; Kagamimori S (1999) The Change of Dietary Habits and the Resultant Changes in Health of Japanese Children. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 38:1- [change; child nutrition and health; East Asia; Japan].

Knodel J (1977) Breast Feeding and Population Growth. Science. 198:1111-1115 [ecology; demography; population; breast milk; infant feeding].

Kolata G (1974)!Kung Hunter-Gatherers: Feminism, Diet, and Birth Control. Science. 185:932-934 [dietary pattern; women; maternal nutrition; reproduction; hunter-gatherers; Africa; Kung].

Korbin JE (1981) Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. University of California Press [collected essays; child nutrition; health; welfare].

Kucera B; McIntosh WA (1991) Family Size as a Determinant of Children's Dietary Intake. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 25:1-12 [interhousehold food allocation; family size; sharing; children].

Labbock MH; Coffin CJ (1997) A Call for Consistency in Definition of Breastfeeding Behaviors. Social Science and Medicine. 44:1931-1932 [infant feeding].

Laderman C (1983) Wives and Midwives: Child Birth and Nutrition in Rural Malasia. [maternal nutrition; reproduction; Southeast Asia; Malasia].

Launer LJ; Habicht JP (1989) Concept About Infant Health, Growth, and Weaning: A Comparison between Nutritional Scientists and Mudurese Mothers. Social Science and Medicine. 29:13-22 [infant feeding; nutritional education; beliefs; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Madura].

Leonard WR (1989) Protection of Children from Seasonal Nutritional Stress in an Andean Agricultural Community. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 43:597-602 [seasonal hunger; children; South America; Andes; Peru].

Leslie J (1988) Women's Work and Child Nutrition in the Third World. World Development. 16:1341-1362 [child nutrition; hunger].

Levine N (1988) Women's Work and Infant Feeding Practices: A Case Study from Rural Nepal. Ethnology. 27:231-252 [infant feeding and nutrition; South Asia; Nepal].

Ling S; King J; Leung V (1975) Diet, Growth, and Cultural Food Habits in Chinese American Infants. American Journal of Chinese Medicine. 31:125-132 [mother, infant nutrition; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsMabilia M (2000) The Cultural Context of Childhood Diarrhea among Gogo Infants. Anthropology & Medicine. 7:191-208 [breastfeeding; disease; beliefs; taboos; Africa; Tanzania; Wagogo].

Maher V (1992) The Anthropology of Breastfeeding. Berg [collected essays; infant feeding].

Manda SOM (1999) Birth Intervals, Breastfeeding, and Determinants of Childhood Mortality in Malawi. Social Science and Medicine. 48:301-312 [infant feeding; Africa].

Manderson L (1984) These Are Modern Times: Infant Feeding Practice in Peninsular Malaysia. Social Science and Medicine. 18:47-57 [infant feeding; Southeast Asia; Malaysia].

Manderson L; Mathews M (1981) Vietnamese Behavioral and Dietary Precautions During Pregnancy. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 11:1-8 [food choice; avoidances; pregnancy; childbirth; Southeast Asia; Vietnam].

Marchione TJ (1977) Food and Nutrition in Self-Reliant National Development: The Impact on Child Nutrition of Jamaican Government Policy. Medical Anthropology. 1:57-59 [child nutrition; government policy; Caribbean; Jamiaca].

Marchione TJ (1980) Factors Associated with Malnutrition in the Children of Western Jamaica. in NW Jerome; RC Kandel; GH Pelto (eds) Nutritional Anthropology. Redgrave [malnutrition; children; Caribbean; Jamaica].

Marquis GS; Diaz J; Barolini R (1998) Recognizing the Reversible Nature of Child Feeding Decisions: Breastfeeding, Weaning, and Relactation Patterns in a Shanty Town Community of Lima, Peru. Social Science and Medicine. 47:645-656 [infant feeding; South America].

Marshall LB (1984) Wage Employment and Infant Feeding: A Papua New Guinea Case. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:170-190 [economic and social change; infant feeding; Oceanian; Papua New Guinea].

Marshall LB (1985) Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific. Gordon and Breach [infant feeding practices; Oceania; Fiji; Papua New Guinea; Samoa].

Martorell R (1975) Acute Morbidity and Physical Growth in Rural Guatemalan Children. American Journal of Diseases of Children. 129:1296-1301 [child nutrition; nutritional deficiency and disease; Central America; Guatemala].

Martorell R; Khan LK; Grummer-Strawn L (1998) Obesity in Latin American Women and Children. The Journal of Nutrition. 128:1464- [obesity; women; children; South America].

Matos Viegas Sd (2003) Eating with Your Favorite Mother: Time and Sociality in a Brazilian Amerindian Community. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society. 9:21-38 [social relations; parent-child bond; food and kinship; Bahia; Caboclo].

McCullough A; Kirksey A; Wachs TD (1990) Vitamin B Status of Egyptian Mothers: Relation to Infant Behavior and and Maternal-Infant Interaction. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 51:108- [nutritional status; mother-infant behavior; social interaction; Africa; Egypt].

McElroy A; Townsend PK (1989) Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective. Westview Press [ecology; economics of nutrition; nutrition and health; life cycle; childhood; old age].

McKenna JJ (1996) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Is Infant-Parent Cosleeping Protective? Annual Review of Anthropology. 25:201-216 [breastfeeding; infant health].

McLorg PA; Bryant CA (1989) Influence of Social Network Members and Health Care Professionals on Infant Feeding Practices of Economically Disadvantaged Mothers. Medical Anthropology. 10:265-278 [breastfeeding].

Mendez M; Adair L (1999) Severity and Timing of Stunting in the First Two Years of Life Affect Performance on Cognitive Tests in Late Childhood. The Journal of Nutrition. 129:1555- [hunger; disease; child nutrition].

Moggi-Cecchi J; Pacciani E; Pinto-Cisternas J (1994) Enamel Hypoplasia and Age at Weaning in 19th Century Florence, Italy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 93:299-306 [history; infant feeding; health & disease; Europe].

Nagra SAaAHG (1987) Variations in Infact Feeding Practices in Pakistan with Socioeconomic Stratification. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 33:103-106 [infant feeding; South Asia; Pakistan].

Nardi B (1984) Infant Feeding and Women's Work in Western Samoa: A Hypothesis. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:277-28- [infant feeding; Oceania; Western Samoa].

Nellin E (1955) Maternal and Infant Feeding Practices in a Peruvian Village. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 31:889-894 [maternal diet; infant feeding; South America; Peru].

Nerlove SB (1974) Women's Workload and Infant Feeding Practices. Ethnology. 13:207-214 [cultural variation and change; infant feeding].

Nichter M; Nichter M (1983) The Ethnophysiology and Folk Dietetics of Pregnancy: A Case Study from South India. Human Organization. 42:235-246 [folk knowledge; folk dietetics; classification; maternal nutrition; pregnancy; South Asia; India].

Odebiyi A (1989) Food Taboos in Maternal and Child Health: The Views of Traditional Healers in Ile-Ife Nigeria. Social Science and Medicine. 28:985-996 [taboos; child health; Africa; Nigeria].

Oni G; Brown K (1988) Force Feeding: A Traditional Feeding Practice of Infants and Young Children in Kwara State Nigeria. in I Sirogeldin; W Mosley (eds) Toward More Efficacy in Child Survival Strategies. The Johns Hopkins University Press [food habits; infant and child feeding practices; Africa; Nigeria].

Orwell S; Clayton D; Douglas AE (1984) Infant Feeding in Nigeria. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 15:129-141 [infant feeding; Africa; Nigeria].

Recommended -- click for detailsPaque C (1984) Infant Salt Taboos in Morocco. Current Anthropology. 25:237-238 [infant feeding; food taboo; Africa; Morocco].

Pearce JC (1992) Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. Harper Collins [human evolution; breastfeeding; mother-child bond; child development; food additives].

Popkin B; Lasky T; Litvin J, et al. (1986) The Infant-Feeding Triad: Infant, Mother, and Household. Gordon and Breach [maternal and infant nutrition].

Quandt SA (1983) Changes in Maternal Postpartum Adiposty and Infant Feeding Patterns. Journal of Physical Anthropology. 60:455-461 [breastfeeding; maternal nutrition & health].

Quandt SA (2000) Infant and Child Nutrition. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food, pp. 1444-1453 [history; Recommended -- click for detailsmaternal nutrition; nutritional anthropology].

Raphael D (1979) Breastfeeding and Food Policy in a Hungry World. Academic Press [collected essays; infant feeding; weaning; health].

Raphael D; Davis F (1985) Only Mothers Know: Patterns in Infant Feeding in Traditional Cultures. Greenwood [breastfeeding].

Sawaya AL; Martins P; Hoffman D, et al. (2003) The Link between Childhood Undernutrition and Risk of Chronic Diseases in Adulthood: A Case Study of Brasil. Nutrition Reviews. 61:168-175 [child nutrition; obesity; chronic degenerative disease; nutritional transition; South America].

Scheper-Hughes N (1984) Infant Mortality and Infant Care: Cultural and Economic Constraints on Nuturing in Northern Brazil. Social Science and Medicine. 19:535-546 [infant nutrition; economy; South America].

Important Study -- click for detailsScheper-Hughes N (1987) Child Survival: Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and Maltreatment of Children. Kluwer Academic Publishers [collected essays; infant & child nutrition; public health].

Scheper-Hughes N (1992) Death without Weeping. University of California Press [malnutrition; children; South America; Brazil].

Schmied V; Lupton D (2001) Blurring the Boundaries: Breastfeeding and Maternal Subjectivity. Sociology of Health and Illness. 23:234-250 [infant feeding; social relations; mother-infant bond; Australia].

Scott S; Duncan CJ (1999) Nutrition, Fertility, and Steady-State Population Dynamics in a Pre-Industrial Community in Penrith, Northern England. Journal of Biosocial Science. 31:71-87 [history; maternal nutrition; infant mortality; social class; United Kingdom].

Scott S; Duncan CJ (2000) Interacting Effects of Nutrition and Social Class Differentials on Fertility and Infant Mortality in a Pre-Industrial Population. Population Studies. 54:71-87 [history; maternal & infant nutrition; social class; United Kingdom].

Shack D (1969) Nutritional Processes and Personality Development among the Gurage of Ethiopia. Ethnology. 8:292-300 [social relations; childrearing; personality; Africa; Ethiopia; Gurage].

Shack K; Grivetti LE; Dewey K (1990) Cash Cropping, Subsistence Agriculture and Nutritional Status among Mothers of Children in Lowland Papua New Guinea. Social Science and Medicine. 31:61-72 [maternal nutrition; economy; Oceania; Papua New Guinea].

Simon D; Adams AM; Madhavan S (2002) Women's Social Power: Child Nutrition and Poverty in Mali. Journal of Biosocial Science. 34:193-213 [child nutrition; gender relations; social status; Africa; Fulbe].

Spielmann K (1989) A Review: Dietary Restrictions on Hunter-Gatherer Women and the Implications for Fertility and Infant Mortality. Human Ecology. 17:321-345 [food avoidances; taboos; maternal nutrition; infant nutrition].

Stansbury JP; Barrios RE; Rojas C, et al. (2000) After the Hurricane: Child Nutrition in Honduran Reconstruction. Nutritional Anthropology. 24:3-7 [child nutrition, malnutrition; disaster; Central America; Honduras].

Stuart-Macadam P; Dettwyler KA (1995) Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives. Aldine de Gruyter [collected essays; infant feeding].

Subar A; Krebs-Smith S; Kahle L (1998) Dietary Sources of Nutrients among Us Children. Pediatrics. 102:913- [diet; children; North America; United States].

Sukkary-Stolba S (1987) Food Classifications and the Diets of Young Children in Rural Egypt. Social Science and Medicine. 25:401-404 [food categories; infant & child nutrition; Middle East; Egypt].

Sussman GD (1982) Selling Mother's Milk the Wet-Nursing Business in France 1715-1914 [history; lactation; infant feeding; Europe; France].

Tietjen AM (1984) Infant Care and Feeding Practices and the Beginnings of Socialization among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 15:39-48 [infant feeding practices; Oceania; Papua New Guinea; Maisin].

Tucker K; Sanjur D (1988) Maternal Employment and Child Nutrition in Panama. Social Science and Medicine. 26:605-612 [child nutrition; Central America; Panama].

Vahatalo L (2005) Schoolchildren's Food Consumption and Dietary Intake During the Dry Season in North-West Namibia. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 56:367-375(9) [food consumption; child nutrition; dietary intake; dry season; seasonal hunger; Africa; Namibia].

Victora C (1986) Child Malnutrition and Land Ownership in Southern Brazil. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 18:251-264 [malnutrition; children; South America; Brazil].

Wang Y; Popkin B; Zhai F (1998) The Nutritional Status and Dietary Pattern of Chinese Adolescents, 1991 and 1993. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 52:908-916 [child, adolescent nutrition; dietary intake; undernutrition; stunting; overweight; China].

Whittemore RD; Beverly EA (1996) Mandinka Mothers and Nurslings: Power and Reproduction. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 10:45-62 [infant feeding; Africa].

Wilson C (1973) Food Taboos of Childbirth: The Malay Example. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 2:267-274 [taboo; childbrith; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Malay].

Wilson C (1986) Social and Nutritional Context Of "Ethnic Foods:" Malay Examples. in L Manderson (ed) Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture and Society in Oceania. Cambridge University Press [social relations; diet; infant feeding; Southeast Asia; Malaysia].

Wright AL; Bauer M; Clark C, et al. (1993) Cultural Interpretations and Intracultural Variability in Navajo Beliefs About Breastfeeding. American Ethnologist. 20:781-796 [infant feeding; North American Indians].

Wright LE; Schwarcz HP (1998) Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in Human Tooth Enamel: Identifying Breastfeeding and Weaning in Prehistory. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 106:1-18 [archaeology; infant feeding].

Yovsi RD; Keller H (2003) Breastfeeding: An Adaptive Process. Ethos. 31:147-171 [infant feeding; cultural values; ecology; Africa; Cameroon; Nso; Fulani].

Zive M; Frank-Spohrer G; Nader P (1998) Determinants of Dietary Intake in a Sample of White and Mexican-American Children. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 98:1282- [dietary intake; child nutrition; North America; United States; Mexican Americans].

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