Dancing Skeletons by Katherine A. Dettwyler

This involvement in research is an indication that she is ready to venture into the scientific world. She has gone a step further and widened her scope of scientific research by studying the cultural context of breastfeeding and breasts in the United States.Ĭurrently, she is carrying a prestigious research about women who nurse their young ones for a period longer than three years. Scientific is a critical area of concern in this book since most of her activities revolve around this area of specification.

Scientific research shows that dental eruption, weight gain, and length of gestation determines the natural age of weaning. She applies etic which is the scientific point of view in the book where she discovers the natural age of weaning to be 2? to 7 years. This engrossing term clearly shows the comparison between the western culture and the West African culture. It ensures that Katherine communicates information to the intended partly effectively and in a clear manner. She concludes that it is due to lack of balanced diets that lead to malnutrition in these young children. She compares the two cultures and emerges with a conclusion that children need a balanced diet in the Western Africa. Katherine views western culture as more powerful and better when compared to the West African culture. Ethnocentrism refers to the idea that one’s own culture is better than other cultures. The terms include ethnocentrism and etic.

Katherine has applied various terms in the book Dancing Skeletons. It develops interest and ambitiousness to continue reading and fulfill various expectations that one develops when reading. This is an extremely critical aspect of writing that she effectively employs to ensure that the glue the reader to the book to find out what happens. It creates the ambitiousness to move to the next page to discover the experience that happened next. The use of humor and tragedy in the book makes a person motivated to finish reading the book.

We view some of the experiences from a perspective of a person with an empathic interest, an outside observer and a parent’s fear of losing a child. She published the book Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa in the year 1994. The birth of Katherine took place in 1955 at McClellan in California. This research will begin with the statement that Katherine Dettwyler is a lecturer, a breastfeeding advocate, an author, and an anthropology professor in Newark at the University of Delaware.

Dancing Skeletons by Katherine A. Dettwyler