Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time Dr Dorothy McKeegan

Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time Dr Dorothy McKeeganAll cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways

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By offering a nuanced and sophisticated treatment of the problematics of constructing a comparative category like scholasticism

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Most smallholder women operate in survival mode and are involved in on-farm

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by an international array of leading scholars

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This volume documents excavations in the Hamrin Basin area in the east-central part of Iraq

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