Birth on the Threshold
Subtitle: Childbirth and Modernity in South India
Publisher: Zubaan
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9788186706725
Subjects: Pregnancy & Childbirth; Social Classes; Family / Parenting / Childbirth
First sentence: Whereas earlier anthropological approaches to reproduction tended to focus on how reproductive practices and beliefs reflected social and cultural systems, scholars now argue that anthropology can benefit from viewing reproduction itself as a key site for understanding the ways in which people re-conceptualize and re-organize the world in which they live.