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Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden and the United States
Birth in Four Cultures A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan Holland Sweden and the United States Author:Brigitte Jordan 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 d... more »ifferent 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.« less
ISBN-13: 9780920792278 ISBN-10: 0920792278 Pages:144 Edition:3 Sub Rating: