abject, 185; exhibitions about, 143
aclu, 138
adoption, 97
adulteration, 90
adventure, 123, 185, 188, 191, 203
advertising, 44, 113, 162-63, 186
aesthetics, 10, 67
affective labor, 104, 109, 115-16, 118 Affordable Care Act (aca), 138 agency, 13, 18, 104, 137, 152, 172-74, 184 allergies, 6
allocation protocol, 54 allomothering, 38, 141, 144 alternative reality, 197 altruism, 115, 144, 146-47, 177 American Academy of Pediatrics (aap), 3, 41
Anand, Nikhil, 64, 158 Ant Farm, 190 Anthropocene, 25
anthropology: as art, 191-92; at home, 8; of the future, 25, 198, 203; of the United States, 9-11 antibodies, 39 art, 27, 143, 172, 190-92 art history, 28, 143 atomic-era ideology, 46 Austin, J. L., 82 autoethnography, 9-12 avant-garde, 172, 181, 187, 194
Barclay, Barry, 109 Barthes, Roland, 20 Bayat, Asef, 13, 113, 152, 156-58 Berlin Free-Zone Project, 198 Beuys, Joseph, 172 biocapitalism, 16, 23, 158, 165, 169,
179,184
blood screening, 52-53, 58-59 body farming, 169, 184 Bokoras, Bobbi, 138 brand, xi, 161-63 Breastapo, 136
“breast milk is best,” 3, 44, 48, 81, 123 breast pump, 47, 60, 85-88; patent, 86 Bynum, Caroline Walker 151
cannibalism, 184
care work, 118, 143
Carroll, Kathleen, 105, 109, 118
Carter, Pam, 48
Cassidy, Tanya, 4
celebrity lactation, 33
Chang, Heewon, 12
charity, 73
cheese, 170-71, 179
Cheney, Melissa, 39
circulation, 35, 81, 167
civil society, 24
class, 11, 14, 48
Cole, Juan, xiv commercialism, 23, 60 commodification, 23, 38, 60, 82, 161-65,179 communication, 58 communitas, 155; asynchronic communitas, 155
community-making, 25, 79, 144, 189, 203
competency, 5, 18, 202 competition, 119
contamination, 37, 51, 53, 88-91, 140 coping, 97-98 corn syrup, 6 Counter Culture Labs, 170 counternetwork, 21, 71, 80 cow’s milk, 46, 91, 94, 117, 170 Cox, Rupert, 192 Crapanzano, Vincent, 193 Crumley, Carole, 112-13, 200 cultural material, 17
David, Stephanie Dawson, 83, 168-69
DDT, 88
death, 98, 147 Debord, Guy, 172 decision making, 18, 59, 71 defrosting, 62
demographics, 41-42, 124-26 Diderot, Denis, 140 disease transmission, 52-53, 58, 90 dissent, 23-24, 81, 159, 189, 195, 203 distribution protocols, 54, 57, 70 dithyramb, 19 Dobkin, Jess, 143 Douglas, Mary, 140 Dr. Brown’s Natural Flow Electric Breast Pump, 88
Eats on Feets, 55 Elyachar, Julia, 96 environmentalism, 89 epistemology, 71 ethics, 83 ethnicity, 41 eusociality, 146 event, 18, 82, 173 exclusion, 70
exclusive breast feeding, 42 experience, xvii, 27, 188, 193, 201
Faircloth, Charlotte, 138
Fed Ex, 68-69
feminism, 89, 136
flavor, 7, 37, 61, 67, 180
food, 151, 164, 170, 177, 180-82, 184
foremilk, 35
formula, 5-8, 42-43; hospital swag bag, 6, 43; ingredients, 6 Foster, Hal, 191 Fraser, Nancy 80 free space, 153, 197 freezing, 60-61
galactic citizenship, 131 gift, 52, 75, 166 Giles, Victoria, 50, 77, 142 Godfrey’s Cordial, 49 gold, 66-67, 131 Goodman, Paul 155 gratitude, 77, 101, 116, 122 Guinness World Records, 85
Haberman, Jurgen, 80 handfeeding, 50, 85 Haraway, Donna, 148 heavy metal contamination, 89 help, 63
heterarchy, 21-22, 112-13, 130, 200 hierarchy of need, 57, 83 hindmilk, 35
HIV, 52, 90, 131
home pasteurization, 60 horizontality, 21, 112 hui, 109, 171 human connection, 7 Human Milk Banking Association of North America (hmbana), xv, 52 Human Milk for Human Babies (hb4hb) 55-56 human rights, 156 Humilk, 162 hyperobjects, 172
ice cream, 182 idiosyncrasy, 155
images: role in ethnography, 19-20 in vitro fertilization, 126 infant mortality rates, 52 informal economy, 23, 154 Informed Comment, xiv infrastructure, 63-64, 69, 125 Ingold, Tim, 174, 192-93 ingredients: formula, 6; breast milk,
39
instinct, 18, 23
insufficient milk syndrome, 46 insurance, xi, 46, 179 intentionality, 137, 154, 156 Irving, Andrew, 192 Isis, 133
Islamic law, xiii
jaguar milk, 151 Jodorowsky, Alejandro, 160-61
joy, 155
Khatib-Chahidi, Jane, 183 kinship, xiii, 183 Klee, Paul, 27 Korova Milk Bar, 183
Kristeva, Julia, 141 Kubrick, Stanley, 183
labor, 46-48, 68, 120-21, 138 lactation: consultant, 48, 102-3; depictions of, 28-30; inducing, 7; hormone therapy, 7 La Leche League International (lll), 3, 22, 36, 43, 135 Larkin, Brian, 65 Latour, Bruno, 174 legal issues, 52, 82-83, 127, 138 liability, 151, 168-69 liberation aesthetic, 195, 198 lifestyle, 58 liminality, 139-40 Lingis, Alphonso, 148, 155 lipase, 37
liquid gold, 67, 162
Lost and Found, 1
love, 54, 63, 98, 116, 123, 139
Mad Max Fury Road, 184 Madonna Lactans, 28-30 magic, 141, 193 magnetic hub, 20 mail, 61-62 male lactation, 7 mammals, 35 matching, 57
material culture, 16, 65-66, 109, 171
maternity leave, 68
matter, 171-75
mattering, 17, 172
Mauss, Marcel, 166
McCloud, Scott, 20
McCulloch, Warren, 112, 200
medical records, 58-59, 90, 95
metastructure, 71, 80
methods, 14-15 microactivism, 23, 136, 153 midwifery, 186 militancy, 45, 138
milk, 35-37, 107; bank, 3, 46, 52-54, 100; benefits of, 35, 42-43; biological roles, 39; contaminants, 37; fortifier, 132, 178-79, 187; immunological functions 39; production, 35; sibling, xi, xiv; station, 46, 50-52 Milkshare, 54 “milky match,” 57 Milky Mommas, 101, 103 Milky Way, 131, 134 Miner, Horace, 193 miracle, 30-32, 73 moloko-plus, 183 money, 53
Morton, Timothy, 172 mother::child dyad, 17, 112, 173 mothering, 6, 43, 138, 147 motivation, 80, 147
National Organ Transplant Act, 168 national resource inventory, 168, 183 native ethnography, 9 natural birth community, 18 naturalness, 88, 111, 122, 147 Needham, Orwell, 85-86 neoliberalism, 158, 146, 147, 158 Nguyen, Vinh-Kim, 131, 133 Nicu care, 45, 54, 109, 114, 132 non-lactating parents, 49 nurture kinship, xiii
objectivity, 11-12
online avatar, 69
Only The Breast (otb), 54, 60
ooze, 30
oral contraceptive, 47
Ordinary Affects, 11, 109; futuristic imitation of, 164 ostranenie, 193
Palmquist, Aunchalee, 4, 92 Papanel, Victor, 190-91 parenting style, 19, 138 passive network, 156 pasteurization, 51-52, 60 patent, 86
“peer-to-peer” exchange, 3 Peirce, Charles Sanders, 16-17, 112, 139 “people of crisis,” 200 performance, 129, 184 Pero, 75
persistent organic pollutants (pops), 88
placentophagy, 38-39
A Place on Earth, 142
policy, 41, 137-38, 189
political conservatism, xiv, 21, 105-6
pollution, 88, 140
posting, 55-57
Powdermaker, Hortense, 9
power, 21, 33, 67, 75-77, 82, 143, 153
pre-term infants, 42, 45, 114
profit motive, 6, 99, 105
Prolacta, 132, 178-79
Prown, Jules David, 16
public health, 41-43
publics, 66, 80-81
pump. See breast pump
purposeful interruption, 20
qualisign, 67 questionnaire, xii quiet encroachment, 152
race, 14, 41, 48
Radical Reconstruction, 197
Ranciere, Jaques, 24
Randolph, Lynn, 143-44 rationality, 18, 92, 146 real life, 201 refusal, 75, 107, 202 regionalisms, 3, 12, 79, 126 regulation, 46, 52, 84, 175, 178 religion, 79, 99, 105, 126, 143 reproductive technology, 127-29 research, 90-93, 146 Reyes-Foster, Beatriz, 4 risk, 18, 22, 38, 45, 88-97, 148-49
Sauco, Max, 73-74 scalies, 196 scarcity, 94
Schlovsky, Viktor, 192-93
Schneider, Arnd, 191
science, 18, 45, 90-91, 148, 150, 177-87
self-care, 77
self-sufficiency, 23
semiotics, 16, 66, 67
shipping, 62
simulated nursing system (sns), 7, 62
Simun, Miriam, 179
Situationist International, 172
smell, 67, 122
smoking, 94
social movement, 154
social occasion, 13
Society for the Anthropology of North America (sana), 9 southern culture, 3, 12, 79, 100, 126 soy products, 6, 94 spider, 174 St. Augustine, 28 standardization, 156, 183 Star, Susan, 64, 69-70 state control of breast milk, 46, 175, 178 Stearn, Cindy, 88 Stern, Leslie, 109
Stewart, Kathleen, 11, 109 Stoller, Paul, 193 storytelling, 133
strangers, 4, 19, 71, 81, 121, 149, 167
Straus, Nathan, 51-52
subjectivity, 173
sun, 131
supermilk, 184
Superstudio, 190
supply, 52, 57
surrogacy, 127-28
Susser, Ida, 9, 11
technology, 82 Teman, Elly, 128 terroir, 180 testing, 52-53
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 47
therapeutic citizenship, 131
third ear, xviii
Tintoretto, 131
token, 17, 139
transparency, 70
trust, 25, 75, 148-49
Turner, Edith, 155
Turner, Victor, 155
type, 17, 139
type/token distinction, 17-18
universal space, 198
value, 23, 38, 66-67, 166, 168 Van Esterik, Penny, 143 venture capitalism, 105, 170 Venus, 144, 145 Virgin Mary, 28 Visitor Q, 143
War and Architecture, 197 Warner, Michael, 81
waste, 117 water, 158
wet nurse, 28, 49-50, 140, 169 white gold, xii, 4, 67, 131 “white peril,” 51
Wilk, Richard, 147
Wolf, Joan, 8
women’s knowledge, 23
Woods, Lebbeus, 1, 24, 187-88, 194-99
Wright, Chris, 191-92
In the Anthropology of Contemporary North America series:
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Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction Roberto E. Barrios
White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing Susan Falls
Holding On: African American Women Surviving hiv/aids Alyson O’Daniel
Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein
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