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A Good Position for Birth : Pregnancy, Risk, and Development in Southern Belize /
"This book provides an ethnographically rich analysis of pregnancy and birth in southern Belize at the intersection of local public health initiatives, transnational development projects, and the culturally influenced beliefs and behaviors of pregnant women. Herein lie the stories of real women...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Maraësa, Aminata, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A Good Position for Birth : |b Pregnancy, Risk, and Development in Southern Belize / |c Aminata Maraesa. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Nashville : |b Vanderbilt University Press, |c [2018] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2018 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2018] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (240 pages). | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Local Values in Action -- 2. Risk and Blame -- 3. In a Good Position -- 4. Fearless Encounters -- 5. ""Obeah Pregnancy"" and the Power of Shame -- 6. Adoption and Anthropological Complicity -- 7. Of Birth . . . and Death -- Notes -- References -- Index | |
| 520 | |a "This book provides an ethnographically rich analysis of pregnancy and birth in southern Belize at the intersection of local public health initiatives, transnational development projects, and the culturally influenced beliefs and behaviors of pregnant women. Herein lie the stories of real women and their caregivers that call attention to local understandings of gender, the provision of healthcare services, competing assessments of maternal risk, and an at-times precarious natural environment to illuminate the lived reproductive realities of women in southern Belize within the faceless statistical categories of maternal health."-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Pregnant women. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01075191 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Maternal health services. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01011995 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Birth customs. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00833248 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Manners and customs. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x World |x Caribbean & Latin American. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Public Policy |x Social Services & Welfare. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Public Policy |x Social Security. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Moeurs et coutumes. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Naissance |x Rites et coutumes |z Belize. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Femmes enceintes |z Belize. | |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Cultural Characteristics |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Parturition |x ethnology |
| 650 | 1 | 2 | |a Maternal Health Services |
| 650 | 0 | |a Manners and customs. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Birth customs |z Belize. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Pregnant women |z Belize. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Maternal health services |z Belize. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Belize. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01206799 | |
| 651 | 2 | |a Belize | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
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| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2018 Complete | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2018 Global Cultural Studies | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2018 Latin American and Caribbean Studies | ||