childbirth and female healers in South and Southeast Asia /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 306 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, map ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ;
Volume Designation
7
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Introduction: the daughters of Hariti today / Geoffrey Samuel -- pt. I. South Asia. 2. 'We know how to do these things': birth in a Newar village / Barbara Johnson. 3. Knowing all the gods: grandmothers, god families and women healers in Nepal / Linda Iltis. 4. Contaminating states: midwifery, childbearing and the state in rural North India / Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Andrew Lyon. 5. Midwives among others: knowledges of healing and the politics of emotions in Rajasthan, Northwest India / Maya Unnithan-Kumar. 6. The healer on the margins: the dai in rural Bangladesh / Santi Rozario. 7. Hawa, gola and mother-in-law's big toe: on understanding dais' imagery of the female body / Janet Chawla. 8. 'Baby-friendly' hospitals and bad mothers: manoeuvring development in the post-partum period in Tamil Nadu, South India / Cecilia Van Holden. 9. Tibetan and Indian ideas of birth pollution: similarities and contrasts / Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel -- pt. 2. Southeast Asia. 10. The demise of birth attendants in Northeast Thailand: embodying tradition in modern times / Andrea Whittaker. 11. Beranak and bekindu': discourses of risk and strength in childbirth and post-partum practice among Iban communities of Pakan / Amanda Harris. 12. Of paraji and bidan: hierarchies of knowledge among Sundanese midwives / Lynda Newland. 13. Embracing modernity: transformations in Sasak confinement practices / Cynthia L. Hunter.