TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rozario,Santi
AU  - Samuel,Geoffrey
TI  - The daughters of Hāritī: childbirth and female healers in South and Southeast Asia 
T2  - Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health
SN  - 0415277922
AV  - R692 .D364 2002
U1  - 618.200954 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Women healers
KW  - Asia
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Birth customs
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Midwifery
KW  - Spiritual healing
KW  - Parturition
KW  - Socioeconomic Factors
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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