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Katherine Ann Dettwyler

Anthropology

#331

World Rank

#472

Historical Rank

#188

USA Rank

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Anthropology

Katherine Ann Dettwyler's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Texas at Austin
Masters Anthropology University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Katherine Ann Dettwyler is an American anthropologist and advocate of breastfeeding. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware. In 2017, she gained media attention for her comments regarding Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student who received fatal brain damage while imprisoned in North Korea.

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Katherine Ann Dettwyler's Published Works

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Can paleopathology provide evidence for "compassion"? (1991) (133)
Infant Feeding Practices and Growth (1992) (122)
Breastfeeding and weaning in Mali: cultural context and hard data. (1987) (118)
Anthropometric standardization reference manual, abridged edition. Edited by Timothy G. Lohman, Alex F. Roche, and Reynaldo Martoll. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetic Books. 1991. 90 pp. $16.00 (paper) (1993) (114)
Infant feeding in Mali, West Africa: variations in belief and practice. (1986) (95)
When to wean: biological versus cultural perspectives. (2004) (88)
Styles of Infant Feeding: Parental/Caretaker Control of Food Consumption in Young Children (1989) (71)
A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for the Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations (2017) (46)
More Than Nutrition: Breastfeeding in Urban Mali (1988) (43)
Nutritional status of adults in rural Mali. (1992) (40)
Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa (1993) (32)
The biocultural approach in nutritional anthropology: case studies of malnutrition in Mali. (1992) (28)
Interaction of anorexia and cultural beliefs in infant malnutrition in Mali (1989) (25)
Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States (2017) (20)
When to Wean. (1997) (6)
Breastfeeding, weaning, and other infant feeding practices in Mali and their effects on growth and development (1985) (6)
On parents and children sleeping together. (1997) (6)
Duration of breast feeding and adult arterial distensibility. Humans are primates, designed to breast feed for years not months. (2001) (4)
Book Review: Feeding Our Babies: Exploring Traditions of Breastfeeding and Infant Nutrition (1999) (3)
Cultural bias and weaning. (1996) (2)
Sexuality and Breastfeeding (1995) (0)
Comparisons of Infant Feeding Patterns Among Koreans Living in Texas, USA and Local Populations (1995) (0)
Breasts (infants vs. sex objects) (2015) (0)
Candidates for Chair, Research and Funding Committee (1989) (0)
Applied Anthropology: Child Survival: Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and Maltreatment of Children. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, ed (1989) (0)
Breasts , Bottles and Babies : A History of Infant Feeding by Valerie A . Fildes (2008) (0)
Evidence for Compassion in the Archeological Record (1989) (0)
Reflections on Anthropology: A Four-Field Reader (2003) (0)
More than Primate Anatomy (1993) (0)
Breastfeeding in Urban Mali (2016) (0)
Breastfeeding , Child Health and Child Spacing : Cross-Cultural Perspectives by Valerie Hull (2007) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Breasts, Bottles and Babies: A History of Infant Feeding. Valerie A. Fildes. (1987) (0)

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