Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States / Edition 4

by Brigette Jordan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780881337174
Publisher:	Waveland Press, Inc.
Publication date:	11/18/1992
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.96(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.56(d)