Anthropology

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Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital

By Suzanne Gottschang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine

The first long- term anthropological study of China’s Baby- Friendly Hospital Initiative, closely examining our assumptions about motherhood and childbirth

The Xavante in Transition

Health, Ecology, and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil

By Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano, and Ricardo V. Santos
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Human-Environment Interactions

Illuminates the experience of a small-scale culture with large-scale change

Building a New Biocultural Synthesis

Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology

Edited by Alan H. Goodman & Thomas Leland Leatherman
Subjects: Anthropology, Health & Medicine
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

Shows the potential for a reintegrated, critical, and politically relevant biocultural anthropology

Remembering to Live

Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia

By M. Hay
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Health & Medicine, Psychology

An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people

Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk

Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania

By Denise Allen
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, African Studies, Health & Medicine

An investigation of the consequences resulting from fertility-related development interventions in Tanzania

Stories as Equipment for Living

Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff

Edited by Marc Kaminsky, Deena Metzger, and Mark Weiss
Introduction by Thomas R. Cole
By Barbara Myerhoff
Foreword by Jack Kugelmass
Subjects: Anthropology, American Studies, Health & Medicine, Sociology, Jewish Studies

Takes us deeper into Barbara Myerhoff's examination of the place of narrative in human life, providing a treasury of reflection, experience, and wisdom as colorful as any collection of tales

Borders of Being

Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific

Edited by Margaret Anne Jolly & Kalpana Rajeswari Ram
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Health & Medicine

Explores the intermingling of women's bodies and nations' boundaries

La Partera

Story of a Midwife

New Edition

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Health & Medicine, Native American Studies, Anthropology, Class Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The story of one woman's life in rural New Mexico and of her emergence as a community leader

Measuring Mamma's Milk

Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy

By Elizabeth Dixon Whitaker
Subjects: Anthropology, Health & Medicine, History, Gender Studies

Shows how fascist biological politics continue to govern the flow of mother's milk in Italy today

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs

Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields

By Pamela Lou Feldman-Savelsberg
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, African Studies, Health & Medicine

Illuminates the dynamics of social and cultural disintegration through the social construction of female infertility

Body Thoughts

By Andrew Strathern
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine

Human Adaptation and Accommodation

Enlarged and Revised Edition

By Andres Roberto Frisancho
Subjects: Anthropology, Health & Medicine

A text that explores how humans adapt to conditions of physical stress

Beliefs, Behaviors, and Alcoholic Beverages

A Cross-Cultural Survey

Edited by Mac Marshall
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Anthropology
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