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Developing destinies : a Mayan midwife and town /
- Title
- Developing destinies : a Mayan midwife and town / Barbara Rogoff ; with Chona Pérez González, Chonita Chavajay Quiacaín, and Josué Chavajay Quiacaín.
- Author
- Rogoff, Barbara.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- x, 343 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Child development in cultural context
- Uniform Title
- Child development in cultural context.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Beginnings : stability and change -- Living culture, across generations -- Meeting Chona and San Pedro -- Paper with a mouth, recounting the developing destinies of an iyoom and her community -- Born to a spiritual calling, across generations : cultural heritage and resistance -- Childhood and where babies come from -- A becoming young woman -- Changing memories in changing practices -- Entry and prominence in a sacred profession -- Ripples across generations and nations in Mayan pregnancy and childbirth -- Ripples across generations and nations in birth destinies and postnatal care -- Ways of learning across times and places -- Traditions and transformations.
- ISBN
- 9780195319903 (alk. paper)
- 0195319907 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010033356
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library