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The daughters of Hāritī : childbirth and female healers in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; 7.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: xi, 306 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415277922
  • 9780415277921
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.200954 21
LOC classification:
  • R692 .D364 2002
Contents:
1. Introduction: the daughters of Hariti today / Geoffrey Samuel -- Pt. I. South Asia. 2. 'We know how to do these things': birth in a Newar village / Barbara Johnson. 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 Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Andrew Lyon. 5. Midwives among others: knowledges of healing and the politics of emotions in Rajasthan, Northwest 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 Chawla. 8. 'Baby-friendly' hospitals and bad mothers: manoeuvring development in the post-partum period in Tamil Nadu, South India / Cecilia Van Holden. 9. Tibetan and Indian ideas of birth pollution: similarities and contrasts / Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel -- Pt. 2. Southeast Asia. 10. The demise of birth attendants in Northeast Thailand: embodying tradition in modern times / Andrea Whittaker. 11. Beranak and bekindu': discourses of risk and strength in childbirth and post-partum practice among Iban communities of Pakan / Amanda Harris. 12. Of paraji and bidan: hierarchies of knowledge among Sundanese midwives / Lynda Newland. 13. Embracing modernity: transformations in Sasak confinement practices / Cynthia L. Hunter.
Summary: "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."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: the daughters of Hariti today / Geoffrey Samuel -- Pt. I. South Asia. 2. 'We know how to do these things': birth in a Newar village / Barbara Johnson. 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 Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Andrew Lyon. 5. Midwives among others: knowledges of healing and the politics of emotions in Rajasthan, Northwest 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 Chawla. 8. 'Baby-friendly' hospitals and bad mothers: manoeuvring development in the post-partum period in Tamil Nadu, South India / Cecilia Van Holden. 9. Tibetan and Indian ideas of birth pollution: similarities and contrasts / Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel -- Pt. 2. Southeast Asia. 10. The demise of birth attendants in Northeast Thailand: embodying tradition in modern times / Andrea Whittaker. 11. Beranak and bekindu': discourses of risk and strength in childbirth and post-partum practice among Iban communities of Pakan / Amanda Harris. 12. Of paraji and bidan: hierarchies of knowledge among Sundanese midwives / Lynda Newland. 13. Embracing modernity: transformations in Sasak confinement practices / Cynthia L. Hunter.

"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."--Publisher description.

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