Ethnographic studies of the effects of food availability and infant feeding practices.

Abstract

Outlines a series of questions to be asked concerning factors that may affect infant feeding, nutrition, and health. Directs attention to factors and characteristics of the community that may be important for programme development. The information can be collected through several techniques: observation in the community, informal conversations, and structured 'key informant' interviews, all of which make up 'ethnographic work' because these techniques have been derived from those characteristic of anthropological field research. -from Author