num_pages: 270
description: Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South.
language: English
title: The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife's Tale
titlecomplete: The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife's Tale
genres: Archaeology, Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Routledge