Conceiving Persons
Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth
Published on 1. February 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-8264-6365-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6365-4 (9780826463654)
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Content
No Substance, No Kinship? Procreation, Performativity and Temanambondro Parent-Child Relations, Philip Thomas; Procreation Theories and their Implications - Overcoming the Absent Father in Southern Tanzania, Maia Green; Making Persons, Marking Differences - Procreation Beliefs in Highland Bolivia, Andrew Canessa; Every Infant is Born with Its "Younger Sibling" - Childbirth and Care Among Amurang Fisherman, Sini Cedercreutz; Women, Work and Procreation Beliefs in Two Muslim Communities, Ilkiko Beller-Hann; Procreation in Islamv- A Reading from Egypt of People and Texts, Hania Sholkamy; The Light of Life - Representation of Procreation, Divinity and Property in Carnia and Anatolia, Patrick Heady; The Essence of Being - Procreation and Sexuality in Mid-Century Macedonia, Ilka Thiessen; Procreation, Patriarchy and Medical Science - The Resistance to Recognizing Maternal Contributions in European Embryological Thought, Julia Stonehouse.