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Breastfeeding decline in urban China: an exploratory study
Human ecology • 13 (4) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 433-466
By: Pasternak, Burton, Ching, Wang.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of breastfeeding in a suburb of Tianjin. The authors test various factors that might have contributed to the steady decline in breastfeeding: examining women's age at marriage, educational attainment, full-time employment, postmarital residence, and availability of baby food supplements. All seem to have some effect; however, the authors were unable to come to one overriding theory.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Infant feeding
- Weaning and food training
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1981-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Red Sky, West River District, Tianjin City, People's Republic of Chin
- NotesAdditional notes
- Burton Pasternak and Wang Ching
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-466)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72623826
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs