Absent Interests.

"How does milk become cow milk, donkey milk or human milk? When one closely explores this question, the species differences 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 comp...

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Superior document:Human-Animal Studies
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : BRILL,, 2022.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Human-Animal Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (191 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Tables, Figures and Diagrams
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • 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
  • Chapter 2 Interests: The Quality and Quantity of Milks
  • 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
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 4 Documents: Documenting Milks
  • 1 Cheese, Cheez and Goats
  • 2 Documenting Milks
  • 3 Not Just Legal Documents
  • 4 Types of Milk Relations
  • Chapter 5 Mothers and Infants: Narratives on Motherhood and Milk
  • 1 Mother Milkmaid
  • 2 Feeding the Family
  • 3 Cows as Mothers
  • 4 Geographies of Breastfeeding
  • Chapter 6 Conclusion: Working Together on Abstraction
  • Bibliography
  • Index.