Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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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Utgivningsdatum2022-09-22
Mått155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt449 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHuman-Animal Studies
Antal sidor184
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004527461

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AcknowledgementsList of Tables, Figures and Diagrams1 Introduction Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks1 Species Body and Species Milk2 Observing Milks3 Milk Relations4 (Dis)connection in Milk Relations5 Practical Challenges6 A Caveat7 Road Map2 Interests The Quality and Quantity of Milk1 Weights and Measures2 Quantifying Production in the Hospital and at Home3 Inheritance and Lactation Curves4 Interests in the Quality of Milk5 Selective Interests3 Concepts Good Milkers: Good Mothers; Bad Milkers: Bad Mothers1 Delicate Eco(nomic)-Systems: The Economics of Animal Milk Production2 The Kinship of Human Milk Relations3 (De)personalising Milks4 Documents Documenting Milks1 Cheese, Cheez and Goats2 Documenting Milks3 Not Just Legal Documents4 Types of Milk Relations5 Mothers and Infants Narratives on Motherhood and Milk1 Mother Milkmaid2 Feeding the Family3 Cows as Mothers4 Geographies of Breastfeeding6 Conclusion Working Together on AbstractionBibiliographyIndex