Title: Birth in four cultures
Description: While the process of childbirth is, in some sense, everywhere the same, it is also everywhere different in that each culture has produced a birthing system that is strikingly dissimilar from the others. Based on her fieldwork in the United States, Sweden, Holland, and Yucatan, Jordan develops a framework for the discussion and investigation of different birthing systems. Illustrated with examples and anecdotes from Jordan's own fieldwork, this comparative ethnography brings the reader to a deeper understanding of childbirth as a culturally grounded, biosocially mediated, and interactionally achieved event.
Subjects: Folklore, Birth customs, Social aspects, Cross-cultural studies, Obstetrics, Social aspects of Obstetrics, Childbirth, Netherlands, social life and customs, Sweden, social life and customs, United states, social life and customs, Yucatan peninsula, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Parturition, Midwifery, Religious aspects, Sociology, Obstetric Labor