Daughters of Hariti (eBook, PDF)

Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia
Redaktion: Rozario, Santi; Samuel, Geoffrey

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Produktbeschreibung

Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134471355
• Artikelnr.: 42641012

Autorenporträt

Santi Rozario, Geoffrey Samuel

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations. Introduction. 1. The Daughters of Hariti Today
Geoffrey Samuel Part 1: South Asia. 2. We Know How to Do These Things:
Birth in a Newar Village 3. Knowing All the Gods: Grandmothers, God
Families, and Women Healers in Nepal Linda Iltis 4. Contaminating States:
Midwifery, Childbearing and the State in Rural North India Patricia
Jeffrey, Roger Jeffrey and Andrew Lyon 5. Midwives and Other Women; Agency,
Emotions and the Politics of Healing in Rajasthan, North West India Maya
Unnithan-Kumar 6. The Healer on the Margins: The Dai in Rural Bangladesh
Santi Rozario 7. Hawa, Gola and Mother-in-Law's Big Toe: On Understanding
Dais' Imagery of the Female Body Janet Chawlan 8. Baby-Friendly Hospitals
and Bad Mothers: Maneuvring Development in the Post-Partum Period in
Tamilnadu, South India Cecilia Van Hollen 9. Tibetan and Indian Ideas of
Birth Pollution: Similarities and Contrasts Santi Rozario and Geoffrey
Samuel Part 2: Southeast Asia. 10. Birth Attendants in Northeast Thailand:
Embodying Tradition in Modern Times Andrea Whitaker 11. Childbirth and
Traditional Healing in an Iban Longhouse Amanda Harris 12. Of Paraji and
Bidan: Hierarchies of Knowledge among Sudanese Midwives Lynda Newland 13.
Adat and Modernity: Confinement in a Sasak Government Clinic Cynthia Hunter
Index. About the Editors and Contributors