Feeding Nayaka children and English readers: A bifocal ethnography of parental feeding in the giving environment

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 523-550

  Bird David, Nurit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifocal ethnography; Child feeding; Hunter gatnerers; Nayaka; Nurturing sharing; Relational ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649105928     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.0.0018     Document Type: Article

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