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CHILDBIRTHACROSSCULTURES SCIENCEACROSSCULTURES: THEHISTORYOFNON-WESTERNSCIENCE VOLUME5 CHILDBIRTHACROSSCULTURES Editor HELAINESELIN,HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6504 CHILDBIRTH ACROSS CULTURES Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum Editor HELAINESELIN HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA Co-Editor PAMELAK.STONE HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA 123 Editor Co-Editor HelaineSelin PamelaKendallStone SchoolofNaturalScience SchoolofNaturalScience HampshireCollege HampshireCollege AmherstMA01002 AmherstMA01002 USA USA [email protected] [email protected] ISSN1568-2145 ISBN978-90-481-2598-2 e-ISBN978-90-481-2599-9 DOI10.1007/978-90-481-2599-9 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009926833 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2009 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Tomychildren.Andespeciallytomy granddaughter,EnnaRaeSelinaSherwin, born5thAugust,2009. Contents Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix IntroductionbyH.Selin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii BirthandtheBigBadWolf:AnEvolutionaryPerspective . . . . . . . . 1 RobbieDavis-FloydandMelissaCheyney BreastfeedingandChildSpacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 RebeccaSundhagen Culturally Diverse Women Giving Birth: TheirStories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 LynnClarkCallisterandInaamKhalaf AHistoryofWesternMedicine,Labor,andBirth. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 PamelaK.Stone ChildbirthinChina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 TravisAnnaHarveyandLilaBuckley ChildbirthAmongHongKongChinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 IpWan-Yim ChildbirthinKorea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 SukheeAhn ChildbirthinJapan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 SatokoYanagisawa ASacramentalTheoryofChildbirthinIndia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 HarishNaraindas RuralMidwivesinSouthIndia:ThePoliticsofBodilyKnowledge . . . 107 KalpanaRam ConstructionsofBirthinBangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 KaosarAfsanaandSabinaFaizRashid vii viii Contents Pregnancy and Childbirth in Nepal: Women’s Role and Decision-MakingPower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 PratimaP.AcharyaandDiluRimal PregnancyandChildbirthinTibet:Knowledge,Perspectives, andPractices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 SiennaR.Craig NyobNruabHlis:ThirtyDaysConfinementinHmongCulture . . . . . 161 PraneeLiamputtong Pregnancy,ChildbirthandTraditionalBeliefsandPracticesin ChiangMai,NorthernThailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 PraneeLiamputtong ChildbirthExperienceintheNegev–TheSouthernRegionofIsrael . . 185 IrisOhelandEyalSheiner ChildbirthandMaternalMortalityinMorocco:TheRoleofMidwives. 195 MarieHatem,FatimaTemmar,andBilkisVissandjée ChildbirthinZimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 ThubelihleMatholeandSimukaiShamu ChildbirthinNigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 HadizaShehuGaladanciandSuwaibaIbrahimSani ChildbirthinTanzania:Individual,Family,Community . . . . . . . . . 221 DavidP.Urassa,AndreaB.Pembe,andBrunoF.Sunguya Culture,PregnancyandChildbirthinUganda:Survivingthe Women’sBattle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 GraceBantebyaKyomuhendo ChildbirthExperiencesinMalawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 LennieAdelineKamwendo NavajoBirth:ABridgeBetweenthePastandtheFuture . . . . . . . . 245 R.CruzBegay ChildbirthintheMayanCommunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 LindaV.Walsh ConvertingBirthonSimbo,WesternSolomonIslands . . . . . . . . . . 265 ChristineDureau ChildbirthinAustralia:AboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderWomen . 275 SueKildeaandM.Wardaguga BiographiesoftheAuthors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Contributors PratimaP.Acharya AucklandCityHospital,Auckland,NewZealand, [email protected] KaosarAfsana HealthProgramme,BRAC,Dhaka,Bangladesh, [email protected] SukheeAhn SchoolofNursing,ChungnamNationalUniversity,Korea, [email protected] R.CruzBegay DepartmentofHealthSciences,NorthernArizonaUniversity, Flagstaff,Arizona,USA,[email protected] LilaBuckley GlobalEnvironmentalInstitute,Beijing,People’sRepublicof China,[email protected] LynnClarkCallister CollegeofNursing,BrighamYoungUniversity,Provo, Utah,USA,[email protected] MelissaCheyney DepartmentofAnthropology,OregonStateUniversity, Corvallis,Oregon,USA,[email protected] SiennaR.Craig DartmouthCollege,Hanover,NewHampshire,USA, [email protected] RobbieDavis-Floyd DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofTexas,Austin, Texas,USA,davis-fl[email protected] TerryDunbar CharlesDarwinUniversity,Darwin,NT,Australia, [email protected] ChristineDureau DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofAuckland, Auckland,NewZealand,[email protected] HadizaShehuGaladanci SeniorConsultantObstetricianandGynaecologist, AminuKanoTeachingHospital,Kano,Nigeria,[email protected] TravisAnnaHarvey Co-founderandowner,Heliocentric, [email protected] MarieHatem Départementdemédecinesocialeetpréventive,Universitéde Montréal,Montréal,Québec,Canada,[email protected] ix x Contributors IpWan-Yim NethersoleSchoolofNursing,ChineseUniversityofHongKong, Shatin,NT,China,[email protected] LennieAdelineKamwendo AssociationofMidwivesofMalawi, [email protected] InaamKhalaf FacultyofNursing,JordanUniversity,Amman,Jordan SueKildea SchoolofNursingandMidwifery,AustralianCatholicUniversity, Brisbane,Australia,[email protected] GraceBantebyaKyomuhendo DepartmentofWomenandGenderStudies, MakerereUniversityUganda,Kampala,Uganda,[email protected] PraneeLiamputtong SchoolofPublicHealth,LaTrobeUniversity,Bundoora, Victoria,Australia,[email protected] BanyanaCeciliaMadi PolicyDevelopmentandHarmonisation,HIVandAIDS Unit,SADCsecretariat,Gaborone,Botswana,[email protected] ThubelihleMathole SchoolofPublicHealth,UniversityoftheWesternCape, CapeTown,SouthAfrica,[email protected] HarishNaraindas CentrefortheStudyofSocialSystems,SchoolofSocial Sciences,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,India, [email protected] IrisOhel SorokaUniversityMedicalCenter,Ben-GurionUniversityoftheNegev, Beer-Sheva,Israel,Beer-Sheva,Israel,[email protected] AndreaB.Pembe DepartmentofObstetricsandGynecology,Schoolof Medicine,MuhimbiliUniversityofHealthandAlliedSciences,DaresSalaam, Tanzania,[email protected] KalpanaRam DepartmentofAnthropology,MacquarieUniversity,Sydney, Australia,[email protected] SabinaFaizRashid JamesPGrantSchoolofPublicHealth,BRACUniversity, Dhaka,Bangladesh,[email protected] DiluRimal [email protected] SuwaibaIbrahimSani HelaineSelin HampshireCollege,Amherst,Massachusettes,USA, [email protected] SimukaiShamu DepartmentofCommunityMedicine,CollegeofHealth Sciences,UniversityofZimbabwe,Harare,Zimbabwe,[email protected] EyalSheiner SorokaUniversityMedicalCenter,Ben-GurionUniversityofthe Negev,Beer-Sheva,Israel,[email protected]
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