Beatriz M Reyes-Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 88541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatriz M Reyes-Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatriz M |
| FAMILY NAME | Reyes-Foster |
| SIGNATURE | REYES-FOSTER B M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sharing Milk
The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for cont…
Sharing Milk
Sharing Milk
Sharing Milk
Maya Geography and Culture
Sharing Milk
Introduction
This chapter provides original sociological thinking in order to bear on contemporary gender relations, divisions, and issues of concern to feminists. It analyzes human milk-sharing communities in a large metropolitan area in southeastern United States. It also describes the practices of milk-sharing, the meanings ascribed to human milk, and the labour involved in its production. The chapter builds on existing scholarship and theoretical framewor…
Introduction
That's Not the Milk Sharing I'm Doing
An article published in the journal Pediatrics in 2013 revealing the presence of bacteria in breast milk purchased online resulted in increased media attention to peer-to-peer breast milk sharing. Media representations portray women who milk share as well-intentioned but uninformed about the possible dangers of milk sharing. Our study explores the reactions of mothers who milk share to media representations of the study. Data consist of an online…
Between Demons and Disease
This chapter uses the Laura Ahearn's definition of agency as "the socioculturally mediated capacity to act": the suicida person who commits suicide is a victim of a demonic power over which he or she has no control. Instead, Lidia identified her symptoms as a demonic strategy to lure her into suicide, though she also recognized that treatment, combined with prayer, were an effective tactic of resistance. Present-day yucatecan attitudes and belief…
Unraveling Ix Tab
Ix Tab, the ancient Maya suicide goddess, appears in various settings in the contemporary popular culture of Yucatán, Mexico. In a state where the suicide rate is double the Mexican national average, discourses about Ix Tab feed misconceptions about indigenous proclivities to suicide and render Maya people exotic. In an effort to unravel the origins of Ix Tab and the contemporary beliefs about indigenous suicide, we studied the ethnohistoric orig…
Latour's Aime, Indigenous Critique, and Ontological Turns in a Mexican Psychiatric Hospital
The “ontological turn” presents an opportunity to re-examine anthropological engagements with various phenomena across multiple modes of existence. One possible terrain for engagement is the acute ward of a psychiatric hospital in Yucatan, Mexico, where psychiatrists, patients, and various invisible beings coexist. By examining the actions and words of patients and doctors in the ward, I consider Latour’s engagement with invisible beings in his r…
Unraveling Ix Tab
Ix Tab, the ancient Maya suicide goddess, appears in various settings in the contemporary popular culture of Yucatán, Mexico. In a state where the suicide rate is double the Mexican national average, discourses about Ix Tab feed misconceptions about indigenous proclivities to suicide and render Maya people exotic. In an effort to unravel the origins of Ix Tab and the contemporary beliefs about indigenous suicide, we studied the ethnohistoric orig…
Between Demons and Disease
This chapter uses the Laura Ahearn's definition of agency as "the socioculturally mediated capacity to act": the suicida person who commits suicide is a victim of a demonic power over which he or she has no control. Instead, Lidia identified her symptoms as a demonic strategy to lure her into suicide, though she also recognized that treatment, combined with prayer, were an effective tactic of resistance. Present-day yucatecan attitudes and belief…
Unraveling Ix Tab
Ix Tab, the ancient Maya suicide goddess, appears in various settings in the contemporary popular culture of Yucatán, Mexico. In a state where the suicide rate is double the Mexican national average, discourses about Ix Tab feed misconceptions about indigenous proclivities to suicide and render Maya people exotic. In an effort to unravel the origins of Ix Tab and the contemporary beliefs about indigenous suicide, we studied the ethnohistoric orig…
Latour's Aime, Indigenous Critique, and Ontological Turns in a Mexican Psychiatric Hospital
The “ontological turn” presents an opportunity to re-examine anthropological engagements with various phenomena across multiple modes of existence. One possible terrain for engagement is the acute ward of a psychiatric hospital in Yucatan, Mexico, where psychiatrists, patients, and various invisible beings coexist. By examining the actions and words of patients and doctors in the ward, I consider Latour’s engagement with invisible beings in his r…
That's Not the Milk Sharing I'm Doing
An article published in the journal Pediatrics in 2013 revealing the presence of bacteria in breast milk purchased online resulted in increased media attention to peer-to-peer breast milk sharing. Media representations portray women who milk share as well-intentioned but uninformed about the possible dangers of milk sharing. Our study explores the reactions of mothers who milk share to media representations of the study. Data consist of an online…
Sharing Milk
The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for cont…
Sharing Milk
Sharing Milk
Sharing Milk
Maya Geography and Culture
Sharing Milk
Introduction
This chapter provides original sociological thinking in order to bear on contemporary gender relations, divisions, and issues of concern to feminists. It analyzes human milk-sharing communities in a large metropolitan area in southeastern United States. It also describes the practices of milk-sharing, the meanings ascribed to human milk, and the labour involved in its production. The chapter builds on existing scholarship and theoretical framewor…
Introduction
Sociology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychedelics and Drug Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)