Status
Available
Publication
Montréal ; St. Albans, Vt. : Eden Press Women's Publications, 1980.
Description
While the process of childbirth is, in some sense, everywhere the same, it is also everywhere different in that each culture has produced a birthing system that is strikingly dissimilar from the others. Based on her fieldwork in the United States, Sweden, Holland, and Yucatan, Jordan develops a framework for the discussion and investigation of different birthing systems. Illustrated with examples and anecdotes from Jordan's own fieldwork, this comparative ethnography brings the reader to a deeper understanding of childbirth as a culturally grounded, biosocially mediated, and interactionally achieved event.
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Language
Physical description
iv, 109 p.; 21 cm
ISBN
0920792057 / 9780920792056
Local notes
anthropology
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