1st Edition

Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific

Edited By Leslie B. Marshall Copyright 1985

    First Published in 1985.  This is Volume 3 of a series on Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology. In the aftermath of the controversial marketing of infant formula in the Third World, this volume describes infant care and feeding practices within their social, cultural and physical context among fourteen different Melanesian and Polynesian societies. The contributors address such issues as health and nutritional status, women's roles and social support, early socialization, symbolism and meaning of foods and feeding and intracultural variability. The material is valuable to health professionals, nutritionists and social scientists in understanding infant care and feeding practices in underdeveloped regions.

    1 COMMENTARY: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON INFANT CARE AND FEEDING 2 WAGE EMPLOYMENT AND INFANT FEEDING: A PAPUA NEW GUINEA CASE 3 CULTURAL ASPECTS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD GROWTH AND NUTRITION AMONG THE A MELE OF LOWLAND PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4 FOOD TABOOS, MALARIA, AND DIETARY CHANGE: INFANT FEEDING AND CULTURAL ADAPTATION ON A PAPUA NEW GUINEA ISLAND 5 INFANT FEEDING AND HEALTH CARE IN KADUWAGA VILLAGE, THE TROBRIAND ISLAND S 6 SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ECOLOGICAL PARAM ETERS OF INFANT FEEDING IN USINO, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 7 INFANT CA RE AND FEEDING PRACTICES AND THE BEGINNINGS OF SOCIALIZATION AMONG THE MAISIN OF PAPUA NEW G UINEA 8 THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF INFANT FEEDING IN THE MURIK LA KES OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA 9 INFANT CARE AND FEEDING IN KAUAI, WEST NEW BRITAIN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 10 PATTERNS OF INFANT FEEDING IN KOVE (WEST NEW BRITAIN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA), 1966-1983 11 INFANT CARE AND FAM ILY RELATIONS ON PONAM ISLAND, MANUS PROVINCE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 12 WOMEN’S WORK AND INFANT FEEDING: TRADITIONAL AND TRANSITIONAL PRACTICES ON MALAITA, SOLOMON I S L A N D S 13 KWARA’AE MOTHERS AND INFANTS: CHANGING FAMILY PRACTICES IN HEALTH, WORK, AND CHILDREARING . 14 THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF INFANT FEEDING IN F I J I 15 INFANT CARE IN A GROUP OF OUTER FIJI ISLAND S 16 INFANT FEEDING AND WOMEN’S WORK IN WESTERN SAMOA: A HYPOTHESIS, SOME EVIDENCE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH 17 COMMENTARY: A PEDIATRICIAN’S PERSPECTIVE .18 COMMENTARY: WOMEN’S WORK AND INFANT FEEDING IN OCEANIA .19 COMMENTARY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON INFANT FEEDING IN OCEANIA.

    Biography

    Leslie B. Marshall