A good position for birth : pregnancy, risk, and development in southern Belize / Amínata Maraesa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maraësa, Aminata, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maternal health services--Belize.

Maternal health services.

Pregnant women--Belize.

Pregnant women.

Birth customs--Belize.

Birth customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"This book provides an ethnographically rich analysis of pregnancy and birth in southern Belize at the intersection of local public health initiatives, transnational development projects, and the culturally influenced beliefs and behaviors of pregnant women. Herein lie the stories of real women and their caregivers that call attention to local understandings of gender, the provision of healthcare services, competing assessments of maternal risk, and an at-times precarious natural environment to illuminate the lived reproductive realities of women in southern Belize within the faceless statistical categories of maternal health."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Local Values in Action

2. Risk and Blame

3. In a Good Position

4. Fearless Encounters

5. "Obeah Pregnancy" and the Power of Shame

6. Adoption and Anthropological Complicity

7. Of Birth . . . and Death

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826504128

0826504124

9780826522023

0826522025

OCLC:

1062396047