Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge
Subtitle: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 27, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780520207851
Subjects: Anthropology; Birth; Birthing methods; History of ideas, intellectual history; Customs & Traditions; Birth customs; Social Science; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; Knowledge, Sociology of; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Childbirth; Cross-cultural studies
First sentence: Twenty years ago when I began investigating obstetrics and midwifery in Yucatan, there were few anthropologists who had even considered these topics in any systematic way.