Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks

Author:   Sarah Czerny
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   25
ISBN:  

9789004527461


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   22 September 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks


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How does milk become cow milk, donkey milk or human milk? When one closely explores this question, the species difference between milks is not as stable as one might initially assume, even if one takes an embodied perspective. To show this, this book takes readers through an ethnographic comparison of milk consumption and production in Croatia in a range of different social settings: on farms, in mother-infant breastfeeding relations, in food hygiene documentation and in the local landscape. It argues that humans actually invest considerable work into abstracting and negotiating milks into their human and animal forms.

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Author:   Sarah Czerny
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   25
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9789004527461


ISBN 10:   900452746
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   22 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements List of Tables, Figures and Diagrams 1 Introduction Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks  1 Species Body and Species Milk  2 Observing Milks  3 Milk Relations  4 (Dis)connection in Milk Relations  5 Practical Challenges  6 A Caveat  7 Road Map 2 Interests The Quality and Quantity of Milk  1 Weights and Measures  2 Quantifying Production in the Hospital and at Home  3 Inheritance and Lactation Curves  4 Interests in the Quality of Milk  5 Selective Interests 3 Concepts Good Milkers: Good Mothers; Bad Milkers: Bad Mothers  1 Delicate Eco(nomic)-Systems: The Economics of Animal Milk Production  2 The Kinship of Human Milk Relations  3 (De)personalising Milks 4 Documents Documenting Milks  1 Cheese, Cheez and Goats  2 Documenting Milks  3 Not Just Legal Documents  4 Types of Milk Relations 5 Mothers and Infants Narratives on Motherhood and Milk  1 Mother Milkmaid  2 Feeding the Family  3 Cows as Mothers  4 Geographies of Breastfeeding 6 Conclusion Working Together on Abstraction Bibiliography Index

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Sarah Czerny has a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka.

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