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ANALYZING THE BENEFITS OF CULTURAL FOOD ITEMS FOR WOMENS HEALING AFTER CHILDBIRTH

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2023(VI-I).01      10.31703/gasr.2023(VI-I).01      Published : Dec 1

Analyzing the Benefits of Cultural Food Items for Women's Healing after Childbirth

    This article deals with the food preferences within the culture and the benefits of traditional food items for a woman after confinement. Within a culture, people have different food choices. Food selection is always defined by cultural, social, environmental, and personal choices. This study looks into the preferred foods within the culture, and how culture shapes the food patterns by emphasizing related traditions. This study tried to explore connections between food and healing by emphasizing traditional food given to new mothers during the period of confinement. The study looks into the benefits, especially those traditional foods that women eat postnatally. Traditional food is consumed by women to increase milk production, overcome anaemia and clean up the inside of the body after delivery.

    Food preferences Culture Traditional food Confinement
    (1) Aroosa Kanwal
    M.Phil, Department of Anthropology, Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Aneela Sultana
    Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Jalal Rahim
    M.Phil., Department of Sociology, Higher school of economics Russia, Russia.
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    APA : Kanwal, A., Sultana, A., & Rahim, J. (2023). Analyzing the Benefits of Cultural Food Items for Women's Healing after Childbirth. Global Anthropological Studies Review, VI(I), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2023(VI-I).01
    CHICAGO : Kanwal, Aroosa, Aneela Sultana, and Jalal Rahim. 2023. "Analyzing the Benefits of Cultural Food Items for Women's Healing after Childbirth." Global Anthropological Studies Review, VI (I): 1-10 doi: 10.31703/gasr.2023(VI-I).01
    HARVARD : KANWAL, A., SULTANA, A. & RAHIM, J. 2023. Analyzing the Benefits of Cultural Food Items for Women's Healing after Childbirth. Global Anthropological Studies Review, VI, 1-10.
    MHRA : Kanwal, Aroosa, Aneela Sultana, and Jalal Rahim. 2023. "Analyzing the Benefits of Cultural Food Items for Women's Healing after Childbirth." Global Anthropological Studies Review, VI: 1-10
    MLA : Kanwal, Aroosa, Aneela Sultana, and Jalal Rahim. "Analyzing the Benefits of Cultural Food Items for Women's Healing after Childbirth." Global Anthropological Studies Review, VI.I (2023): 1-10 Print.
    OXFORD : Kanwal, Aroosa, Sultana, Aneela, and Rahim, Jalal (2023), "Analyzing the Benefits of Cultural Food Items for Women's Healing after Childbirth", Global Anthropological Studies Review, VI (I), 1-10
    TURABIAN : Kanwal, Aroosa, Aneela Sultana, and Jalal Rahim. "Analyzing the Benefits of Cultural Food Items for Women's Healing after Childbirth." Global Anthropological Studies Review VI, no. I (2023): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2023(VI-I).01