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Birthing in the Pacific : beyond tradition and modernity? / edited by Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly.
- Title
- Birthing in the Pacific : beyond tradition and modernity? / edited by Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi, c2002.
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- Description
- xi, 249 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This collection explores birthing in the Pacific. Case studies from across the region show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practice, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches can be potent but problematic"--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Note
- Essays partly based on a conference organized by the Gender Relations Project at the Australian National University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-231) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : birthing beyond the confinements of tradition and modernity? / Margaret Jolly -- From Māʻuli to motivator : transformations in reproductive health care in Tonga / Helen Morton -- Childbirth in Papua New Guinean villages and in Port Moresby General Hospital / Ruta Fiti-Sinclair -- Obligatory maternity and diminished reproductive autonomy in Aʻjië and Paicî Kanak societies : a female perspective / Christine Salomon -- Native obstetric nursing in Fiji / Vicki Lukere -- Colonial impregnations : reconceptions of maternal health practice on Nuaʻata, Papua New Guinea / Shelley Mallett -- From darkness to light : epidemiologies and ethnographies of motherhood in Vanuatu / Margaret Jolly.
- ISBN
- 0824824083 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0824824849 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001043461
- OCLC
- 47863207
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library