Birthing in the Pacific
Subtitle: Beyond Tradition and Modernity?
Contributors: Vicki Lukere (Editor); Margaret Jolly (Editor)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; Univ of Hawaii Pr
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780824824846
Subjects: Birth; Social & cultural anthropology; Islands of the Pacific; Birth customs; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Oceania; Anthropology - Cultural; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Childbirth
Description: "This collection explores birthing in the Pacific. Case studies from across the region show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practice, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches can be potent but problematic"--Publisher's description.