Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004527461)

How does milk become cow milk, donkey milk or human milk? When one closely explores this question, the species difference between milks is not as stable as one might initially assume, even if one takes an embodied perspective. To show this, this book takes readers through an ethnographic comparison of milk consumption and production in Croatia in a range of different social settings: on farms, in mother-infant breastfeeding relations, in food hygiene documentation and in the local landscape. It argues that humans actually invest considerable work into abstracting and negotiating milks into their human and animal forms.

Author: Sarah Czerny
ISBN-10: 900452746X
ISBN-13: 9789004527461
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2022
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2023