books by Katherine Dettwyler (biocultural reflections four-field)

books by Katherine Dettwyler

books:

Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives

9 reviews

Aldine Transaction, 1995

This book changed my life!!
This book has changed my life! There is so much evidence and sound facts about why it is so important for a child to be breastfed until the age of 2.5- 7 years of age that a person would have to be deaf, dumb & blind to at last not consider it. It is because of this book, that I am going to continue to exclusively pump for my son until the age of 5 (he never latched). I would highly recommend ...

Reflections on Anthropology: A Four-Field Reader
Katherine A. Dettwyler, Vaughn M Bryant

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003

Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa

15 reviews
Katherine Dettwyler

Waveland Press, 1993

Excellent introduction to African life
I am not an anthropologist but a tourist who has visited Africa and is interested in learning more about African people. I found Katherine Dettwyler's book an excellent introduction to how real people live and deal with their lives in Africa. Dettwyler tells us how mothers and children interact, the way families view their children, what day-to-day life in rural Africa is really like. I found it ...