Title: Dancing skeletons
First published: 1994
Description: One of the most widely used ethnographies published in the last twenty years, this Margaret Mead Award winner has been used as required reading at more than 600 colleges and universities. This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates not-soon-forgotten messages involving the sobering aspects of fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. With nutritional anthropology at its core, Dancing Skeletons presents informal, engaging, and oftentimes dramatic stories that relate the author's experiences conducting research on infant feeding and health in Mali.
Subjects: Case studies, Children, Fertility, Human, Health and hygiene, Human Fertility, Infants, Mali, Nutrition, Nutritional anthropology, Infants, nutrition, Children, health and hygiene, Malnutrition, Child welfare, Fertility, Social sciences, Archaeology, Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Ethnology, Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Cultural Characteristics
Places: Mali
LC classification: GN655.M22 .D48 1994