Embodying culture : pregnancy in Japan and Israel /

Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different culturesùJapan and Israelùboth of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivryfocuses on "low-risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explorethe complex relations among eth...

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书目详细资料
主要作者: Ivry, Tsipy
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.
丛编:Studies in medical anthropology.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj6df
书本目录:
  • Introduction: pregnancy, cultural comparison, multisited ethnographies
  • The doctoring of pregnancy
  • A risky business: pregnancy in the eyes of Israeli ob-gyns
  • The twofold structure of Japanese prenatal care
  • Experiencing pregnancy
  • The path of bonding
  • The path of ambiguity
  • Embodying culture: toward an anthropology of pregnancy
  • Juxtapositions
  • Pregnant with meaning.