A good position for birth : pregnancy, risk, and development in southern Belize /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Maraësa, Aminata (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Maternal health services > Belize.
Pregnant women > Belize.
Birth customs > Belize.
Manners and customs.
Maternal Health Services
Parturition > ethnology
Cultural Characteristics
Femmes enceintes > Belize.
Naissance > Rites et coutumes > Belize.
Mœurs et coutumes.
customs (social concepts)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Caribbean & Latin American.
Manners and customs
Birth customs
Maternal health services
Pregnant women
Belize
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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