Re-imagining milk / Andrea S. Wiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiley, Andrea S., 1962-

Series:

Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology

The Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milk--Social aspects.

Milk.

Milk--Social aspects--United States.

Milk consumption.

Milk as food.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Written explicitly for undergraduates, Re-imagining Milk demonstrates how a particular commodity can be used to illustrate ethnocentric beliefs about the universal goodness of milk; biological variation in human populations; political and economic processes that inform dietary policies, nutrition education, and current trends in globalization; the utility of a biocultural approach to the study of food; the cultural construction of a commodity that is consumed by many students on a daily basis, or if not, certainly is one that students "know" they "should" consume daily.

Contents:

1 Introduction: On the "Specialness" of Milk 1

A Biocultural Perspective on Milk 4

Mammals and Milk 7

Milk Composition 8

Outline of the Book 12

2 Population Variation in Milk Digestion and Dietary Policy 15

Lactose and Lactase 15

Early Work on the Clinical Significance of Population Variation in Milk Digestion 19

Terminology 21

Dietary Policy, Population Variation, and Milk Consumption in the U.S. 22

Milk Promotion, Population Variation, and Charges of Racism 31

3 A Brief History of Milk Consumption: Europe and the U.S. 37

Early Domestication of Mammals and Dairying 37

Pre-industrial Milk Production and Consumption 39

Urbanization and the Rise of Fresh Milk Consumption 44

Regulating the Milk Supply 49

Marketing of Milk: Normative Discourse about Milk and Children 51

Not Drinking Their Milk: Declining Milk Intake in the U.S. 58

4 Milk Consumption, Calcium, and Child Growth 64

Calcium: Miracle Mineral? 64

Does Milk make Children Grow? 66

Studies of Milk Consumption and Growth in Height 70

Milk and "Strong Bones" 79

Milk and Weight 81

5 Growing Children around the World: The Globalization of Childhood Milk Consumption 83

Milk as a Globalizing Commodity 84

India and China: Promoting Milk through Growth 90

Marketing Milk as Modernity 98

Lactose Intolerance and Local Transformations of Milk 102

6 Conclusion 104.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415806565

0415806569

9780415806572

0415806577

9780203836972

0203836979

OCLC:

430052243