a crosscultural investigation of childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States
Edición de la obra Birth in four cultures
| Autor | Brigitte Jordan |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Eden Press Women's Publications |
| Fecha de publicación | 1978 |
| Lugar | Montreal, St. Albans, Vt |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 109 |
| ISBN-10 | 0888310242 |
| OCLC | 4667022 |
| LCCN | 78326935 |
| Serie | Monographs in women's studies |
| Número de Cutter |
J82b |
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.