essay
Breast-feeding and social class mobility: the case of Mexican migrant mothers in Houston, Texas
Twice a minority : Mexican American women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 66-82
By: Acosta Johnson, Carmen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper consists of a series of interviews '…with mothers who had recently left an agrarian village setting in Mexico, a high birth-high death nation, and entered the urban industrial setting of Houston, an intermediate birth and death setting. The manner in which this migration affected their infant feeding practices is traced, and the implications for explaining the social class patterning of breast-feeding behavior are developed' (p. 66).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hospitals and clinics
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Postnatal care
- Infant feeding
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Houston, Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carmen Acosta Johnson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 82)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80011177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans