Birth in four cultures
Parturition
Obstetric Labor
Midwifery
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Obstetrics
United states, social life and customs
Childbirth
Cross-cultural studies
Folklore
Sociology
Religious aspects
Social aspects
While the process of childbirth is, in some sense, everywhere the same, it is also everywhere different in that each culture has produced a birthing system that is strikingly dissimilar from the others. Based on her fieldwork in the United States, Sweden, Holland, and Yucatan, Jordan develops a fram…
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