
Conceiving Persons
Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth Volume 68
Peter Loizos(Editor)
Berg Publishers
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1999
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-1-84520-690-1 (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
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84520-690-1 (9781845206901)
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Peter Loizos is professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Patrick Heady recieved his doctorate in Antropology from the London School of Economics and works at the Office for national Statistics
Content
1 Introduction 2 No substance, no kinship? Procreation, performativity and Temanambondro parent-child relations 3 Procreation theories and their implications: overcoming the absent father in southern Tanzania 4 Making persons, marking differences: procreation beliefs in highland Bolivia 5 Every infant is born with its 'younger sibling': childbirth and care among Amurang fishermen 6 Women, work and procreation beliefs in two Muslim communities 7 Procreation in Islam: a reading from Egypt of people and texts 8 The light of life: representations of procreation, divinity and property in Carnia and Anatolia 9 The essence of being: procreation and sexuality in mid-century Macedonia 10 Procreation metaphors in rural Greece: cultivating, bread-making, weaving 11 Procreation, patriarchy and medical science: the resistance to recognizing maternal contributions in European embryological though.