The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes

Foreword.- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Mother/Infant Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology.- Section 1. Infant and maternal health in bioarchaeology.- Chapter 2. Assessing early life stress in bioarchaeology: New approaches to understanding the vulnerable maternal-fetal relationship.- Chapter 3. Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating perinatal and maternal health stress in Post-Medieval London.- Chapter 4. The mother-offspring nexus revealed by linear enamel hypoplasia: Chronological and contextual evaluation of developmental stress using incremental microstructures of enamel.- Section 2. Nourishment and the Nexus.- Chapter 5. The ecology of breastfeeding and mother-infant immune functions.- Chapter 6. What doesn't kill you: Childhood health, nutrition, and parental investment in early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia.- Chapter 7. Cooperative Lactation and the Maternal-Infant Nexus.- Section 3. Social and cognitive interactions in early life.- Chapter 8. Mothering Tongues: Anthropological Perspectives on Language and the Mother-Infant Nexus.- Chapter 9. The Mother-Infant Sleep Nexus: night-time experiences in early infancy and later outcomes.- Chapter 10. Moving beyond the Obstetrical Dilemma Hypothesis: Birth, weaning and infant care in the Plio-Pleistocene.- Section 4. Rupturing the nexus: infant loss in the archaeological record.- Chapter 11. Using bone histology to identify stillborn and short-lived infants in the archaeological record.- Chapter 12. Archaeothanatology as a Tool for Interpreting Death During Pregnancy: A Proposed Methodology Using Examples from Medieval Ireland.- Chapter 13. Touching the Surface: Biological, behavioral, and emotional aspects of plagiocephaly at Harappa.- Chapter 14. Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course.- Chapter 15. Conclusions and Future Directions.- Index.