1. Perspectives on feeding and bonding: an introduction; 2. Forming kin attachments during mealtime in rural Morocco; 3. From breast milk to ancestral blessings: feeding through the life course in a pastoralist community of Madagascar; 4. Learning about hierarchy through hand-feeding in Sri Lanka; 5. Feeding and food-giving as a proactive caregiving system among the Tao in Taiwan; 6. Attachment formation through breastfeeding and feeding: insights from urban middle-class families in San José, Costa Rica; 7. Comparison of results and theoretical analysis; 8. Conclusions, implications, and the politics of feeding children; References; About the authors.
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