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Anthropology of human birth

Title
Anthropology of human birth / [edited by] Margarita Artschwager Kay.
Publication
Philadelphia : F.A. Davis, ©1982.

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Additional Authors
Kay, Margarita Artschwager.
Description
xviii, 445 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Birth customs
  • Childbirth
  • Pregnancy
  • Ethnology
  • Anthropology, Cultural
  • Ethnology
  • Pregnancy
  • Parturition
  • pregnancy
  • Birth customs
  • Childbirth
  • Geburt
  • Anthropologie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Kraamgebruiken
  • Zwangerschap
Genre/Form
Essays.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Writing an ethnography of birth / Margarita A. Kay -- Toward a comparative framework for the study of childbirth: a review of the literature / Carol McClain -- Studying maternal-infant attachment: a Mexican-American example / Martha Gunther Enriquez -- Giving birth in a Malay village / Carol Laderman -- Childbearing in Japan / Gale Lee Bernstein and Yasue Aoki Kidd -- "Doing the month:" confinement and convalescence of Chinese women after childbirth / Barbara Pillsbury -- Childbirth in an Egyptian village / Soheir Morsy -- Traditional Onitsha Ibo maternity beliefs and practices / Helen Henderson and Richard Henderson -- Solitary confinement: birth practices among the Bariba of the People's Republic of Benin / Carolyn Sargent -- Lockmi: an Indian midwife / Marcha Flint -- Seri: from conception through infancy / Mary Beck Moser -- Knowledge and body concepts of Guatemalan midwives / Sheila Cosminsky -- Poor mothers and modern medicine in St. Kitts / Judith Gussler -- Virgin mothers: the impact of Irish Jansenism on childbearing and infant tending in Western Ireland / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- An ethnography of home birth / Sandra Vandam Anderson and Eleanor E. Bauwens -- The Neo-oriental American: childbearing in the Ashram / Kimberly Hubbell -- Lesbian childbirth and artificial insemination: a wave of the future / Deborah Goleman Wolf -- Mormon childbearing / Sarah Stark -- Northwest Coast Indians: the Muckleshoot / Beverly M. Horn -- Attitudes toward childbearing and menstruation among the Navajo / Anne Wright -- Tonawanda Seneca childbearing culture / Veronica Evaneshko -- The American way of birth / Angela B. McBride.
ISBN
  • 0803652402
  • 9780803652408
LCCN
81009776
OCLC
  • ocm07577922
  • 7577922
  • SCSB-630242
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library