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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Fishel Sargent
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledgeand#151;the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which decisions are made and actions takenand#151;highlights the vast differences between birthing systems that give authority of knowing to women and their communities and those that invest it in experts and machines.

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge offers first-hand ethnographic research conducted by anthropologists in sixteen different societies and cultures and includes the interdisciplinary perspectives of a social psychologist, a sociologist, an epidemiologist, a staff member of the World Health Organization, and a community midwife. Exciting directions for further research as well as pressing needs for policy guidance emerge from these illuminating explorations of authoritative knowledge about birth. This book is certain to follow Jordan's Birth in Four Cultures as the definitive volume in a rapidly expanding field.


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Robbie Davis-Floyd, Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, is author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage (California, 1992) and co-editor of Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots (1997). Carolyn F. Sargent, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies at Southern Methodist University, is author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power: Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin (California, 1989) and coeditor of Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method (1996).

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Grace Bascope, Megan Biesele, Carole Browner, Beverley Chalmers, Elizabeth Davis, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Betty Anne Davis, Deborah Cordero Fiedler, Eugenia Georges, Amara Jambai, Kenneth C. Johnson, Brigitte Jordan, Sheila Kitzinger, Ellen Lazarus, Carol MacCormack, Stacy Leigh Pigg, Nancy Anne Press, Rayna Rapp, Carolyn F. Sargent, Paola M. Sesia, Jane Szurek, Wenda Trevathan, Marsden Wagner


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ISBN:
9780520207851
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
08/27/1997
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
505
Height:
1.27IN
Width:
5.96IN
LCCN:
96048263
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1997
Series Volume:
no. 65
UPC Code:
2800520207853
Author:
Robbie Davis Floyd
Oth:
Rayna Rapp
Author:
Carolyn Fishel Sargent
Author:
Carolyn Sargent
Author:
Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Subject:
anthropology;cultural anthropology
Subject:
Childbirth
Subject:
Knowledge, sociology of
Subject:
Birth customs

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