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Birthing in the Pacific : Beyond Tradition and Modernity? / ed. by Margaret Jolly, Vicki Lukere.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824824082
  • 9780824846206
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.4/099 21
LOC classification:
  • RG652
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Birthing Beyond the Confinements of Tradition and Modernity? -- 1. From Mā'uli to Motivator: Transformations in Reproductive Health Care in Tonga -- 2. Childbirth in Papua New Guinean Villages and in Port Moresby General Hospital -- 3. Obligatory Maternity and Diminished Reproductive Autonomy in A'jië and Paicî Kanak Societies: A Female Perspective -- 4. Native Obstetric Nursing in Fiji -- 5. Colonial Impregnations: Reconceptions of Maternal Health Practice on Nua'ata, Papua New Guinea -- 6. From Darkness to Light? Epidemiologies and Ethnographies of Motherhood in Vanuatu -- Conclusion. Wider Reflections and a Survey of Literature -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts. The introduction analyzes central concepts and themes: questions of survival, safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices, and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction. Contributors--four anthropologists, a historian, and a community health worker--offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women's past powers in reproduction. Contributors: Ruta Fiti-Sinclair, Margaret Jolly, Vicki Lukere, Shelley Mallett, Helen Morton, Christine Salomon.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Birthing Beyond the Confinements of Tradition and Modernity? -- 1. From Mā'uli to Motivator: Transformations in Reproductive Health Care in Tonga -- 2. Childbirth in Papua New Guinean Villages and in Port Moresby General Hospital -- 3. Obligatory Maternity and Diminished Reproductive Autonomy in A'jië and Paicî Kanak Societies: A Female Perspective -- 4. Native Obstetric Nursing in Fiji -- 5. Colonial Impregnations: Reconceptions of Maternal Health Practice on Nua'ata, Papua New Guinea -- 6. From Darkness to Light? Epidemiologies and Ethnographies of Motherhood in Vanuatu -- Conclusion. Wider Reflections and a Survey of Literature -- References -- Contributors -- Index

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This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts. The introduction analyzes central concepts and themes: questions of survival, safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices, and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction. Contributors--four anthropologists, a historian, and a community health worker--offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women's past powers in reproduction. Contributors: Ruta Fiti-Sinclair, Margaret Jolly, Vicki Lukere, Shelley Mallett, Helen Morton, Christine Salomon.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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