Birth on the Threshold
Subtitle: Childbirth and Modernity in South India
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 16, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780520223585
Subjects: Asian studies; Birth; Ethnography; Gender Studies; Medical anthropology; Customs & Traditions; Social Science; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Sociology; India; Indian sub-continent; India, South; Asia - General; Pregnancy & Childbirth; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Childbirth; Anthropology - General; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
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.