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Safe in a midwife's hands : birthing traditions from Africa to the American South
- Title
- Safe in a midwife's hands : birthing traditions from Africa to the American South / Linda Janet Holmes.
- Author
- Holmes, Linda Janet, 1949-
- Publication
- Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 193 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Based on interviews the author conducted with Black midwives in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Kenya as well as in the American South, details the parallels between African and Black American birthing traditions that have survived hundreds of years of colonization, slavery, and Jim Crow"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
- Contents
- Korogocho: massage techniques, spiritual cleansings, urban gardens -- Baringo County: naming traditions, pouring libations, preparing fermented milk -- Wolaita Sodo: caretakers of the process -- Afar: timeless bonds, smoking the mother, extended care -- Kpana: healing plants, upright birthing, afterbirth ceremony -- Ejura: lineage apprenticeships, spiritual cleansings, born with the gift -- Montgomery: massage, birthing prayers, burial of the placenta -- Lowndes County: medicinal herbs, dirt dauber tea, craving earth -- Selma, Dallas County: outdooring ceremony, keeping a birth fire, elements of protection -- Mobile and beyond: advisors, advocates, lifetime caregivers -- Hampton to Charlottesville: rebirthing midwife traditions -- Epilogue: Unearthing Black midwife stories.
- Call Number
- Sc D 24-38
- ISBN
- 9780814258668
- 0814258662
- 9780814282793 (canceled/invalid)
- 0814282792 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022051159
- OCLC
- 1358747936
- Author
- Holmes, Linda Janet, 1949- author.
- Title
- Safe in a midwife's hands : birthing traditions from Africa to the American South / Linda Janet Holmes.
- Publisher
- Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 24-38