Contents:
List of illustrations. Introduction. 1. The Daughters of Hariti Today
Geoffrey Samuel Part 1: South Asia. 2. "We Know How to Do These Things": Birth in a Newar Village 3. Knowing All the Gods: Grandmothers, God Families, and Women Healers in Nepal
Linda Iltis 4. Contaminating States: Midwifery, Childbearing and the State in Rural North India
Patricia Jeffrey,
Roger Jeffrey and
Andrew Lyon 5. Midwives and Other Women; Agency, Emotions and the Politics of Healing in Rajasthan, North West India
Maya Unnithan-Kumar 6. The Healer on the Margins: The Dai in Rural Bangladesh
Santi Rozario 7.
Hawa,
Gola and Mother-in-Law's Big Toe: On Understanding Dais' Imagery of the Female Body
Janet Chawlan 8. "Baby-Friendly" Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvring Development in the Post-Partum Period in Tamilnadu, South India
Cecilia Van Hollen 9. Tibetan and Indian Ideas of Birth Pollution: Similarities and Contrasts
Santi Rozario and
Geoffrey Samuel Part 2: Southeast Asia. 10. Birth Attendants in Northeast Thailand: Embodying Tradition in Modern Times
Andrea Whitaker 11. Childbirth and Traditional Healing in an Iban Longhouse
Amanda Harris 12. Of
Paraji and
Bidan: Hierarchies of Knowledge among Sudanese Midwives
Lynda Newland 13. Adat and Modernity: Confinement in a Sasak Government Clinic
Cynthia Hunter Index. About the Editors and Contributors