Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States by Brigette Jordan
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Textbook (Paperback - REV)
- 256pp
- Sales Rank: 63,064
Textbook Information
- ISBN-13: 9780881337174
- Edition Description: REV
- Edition Number: 4
- Pub. Date: November 1992
- Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 1992
- Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 63,064
- ISBN-13: 9780881337174
- ISBN: 088133717X
- Edition Number: 4
- Edition Description: REV
Synopsis
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 useful examples and lively anecdotes from Jordan’s own fieldwork, the Fourth Edition of this innovative comparative ethnography brings the reader to a deeper understanding of childbirth as a culturally grounded, biosocially mediated, and interactionally achieved event.
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