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Author : Nancy McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Birth control
ISBN : UOM:39015018759038
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Birth control
ISBN : OCLC:57174311
Author : Donald Denoon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521523028
A study of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care in colonial Papua New Guinea.
Author : Stuart Gietel-Basten,John Casterline,Minja Kim Choe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781785363559
The demographic future of Asia is a global issue. As the biggest driver of population growth, an understanding of patterns and trends in fertility throughout Asia is critical to understand our shared demographic future. This is the first book to comprehensively and systematically analyse fertility across the continent through the perspective of individuals themselves rather than as a consequence of top-down government policies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Children
ISBN : UOM:39015040877782
Author : T. L. Thurston,Manuel Fernández-Götz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316515396
This volume challenges traditional narratives on power, moving away from elite-centered models and focusing instead on the archaeology of commoners.
Author : Stanley J. Ulijaszek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1571816445
Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.
Author : Margaret Jolly,Kalpana Ram
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0472067559
Explores the intermingling of women's bodies and nations' boundaries
Author : John Connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134938322
Since 1975 the economy of Papua New Guinea has focused on mineral, rather than agricultural production as previously. This is the first book to look at these changes in a complex, rapidly evolving nation from an economic perspective.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Papua New Guinea
ISBN : UCBK:C049837229
Author : Vicki Lukere,Margaret Jolly
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824846206
This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts. The introduction analyzes central concepts and themes: questions of survival, safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices, and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction. Contributors--four anthropologists, a historian, and a community health worker--offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women's past powers in reproduction. Contributors: Ruta Fiti-Sinclair, Margaret Jolly, Vicki Lukere, Shelley Mallett, Helen Morton, Christine Salomon.
Author : Thomas A. Gregor,Donald F. Tuzin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520935815
One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and gender. In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the core of religion, symbolism, and cosmology, and they permeate ideas about body imagery, procreation, growth, men's cults, and rituals of initiation. The contributors to this innovative volume illuminate the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire cultural regions, and beyond. Through comparison of the life ways of Melanesia and Amazonia the authors expand the study of gender, as well as the comparative method in anthropology, in new and rewarding directions.
Author : Nelly P. Stromquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135498542
Ideal for researching the status and activities of Third World women For quick, reliable coverage of women's issues in developing countries, here is a concise reference work written by a team of more than 80 international experts. The Encyclopedia comprises 68 essays that cover the entire Third World, from Africa to Asia, from the Near East to South and Central America, from the South Pacific to the Caribbean. The women authors are acknowledged experts from Harvard University, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the University of Nairobi, the International Labor Organization, and other institutions, who summarize the most recent scholarship on a wide range of important subjects. Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, the Encyclopedia is an ideal starting point for in-depth research in such areas as: recent developments in the prevention of violence against women * the conditions of women's lives across regions and countries * women's participation in government, science, and technology * hidden curriculum issues in higher education * an overview of women's experiences as small-scale entrepreneurs A feminist viewpoint enhances the coverage Informed throughout by a feminist perspective, the Encyclopedia focuses on traditional women's concerns, such as political participation, human rights, nutrition, housework, the family, equality, health, and more. But the coverage also extends to such issues as domestic and sexual violence, creation of women-friendly cities, patriarchal ideologies as religious beliefs, the needs of older women, new jobs and exploitation in industrial production, AIDS, the gender consequences of ecological devastation, movements for change, and other areas of increasing awareness. Geographical entries cover all the major regions and countries and discuss conditions and issues in each area. Spotlights the newest and best sources The Encyclopedia brings together information that has been widely scattered in sources from many disciplines. An introduction by the editor illuminates the most important issues faced by Third World women today and analyzes the drastically changed global situation and how the changes impacted on the material presented in the Encyclopedia. Reference aids make information retrieval easy An annotated bibliography of the latest and most important sources, as well as a reference list at the end of each chapter, provide quick access to current literature. A thorough name and subject index makes it easy to pinpoint information. Special Features Offers articles by recognized scholars and activists on gender and developmental issues * Presents a variety of perspectives by women from both industrialized and developing countries * Summarizes the literature of established disciplines, bringing together important material scattered in many sources * Identifies new areas for research affecting gender and development in emerging fields, such as legal rights * Outlines strategies for action in such critical areas as ecology and urban issues * An annotated bibliography and list of references at end of each chapter make it easy to expand your research
Author : Jane Eva Baxter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442268517
The first edition of The Archaeology of Childhood has been credited by many as launching an entire new area of scholarship in archaeology. This second edition, published 17 years later, retains the first edition’s emphasis on combining sources from archaeology, anthropology, environmental studies, psychology, and sociology, to create a rich interdisciplinary basis for studying childhood across time and across cultures. The second edition is updated with archaeological studies about childhood that have been published in the past 20 years, and readers will see that the archaeology of childhood is a field with a relatively short history but a rich and varied scholarship. Archaeologists study children in the very recent past, as well as Neanderthal and early modern human children, and every period in between. These studies use artifacts, the built environment, spatial analyses, the artistic representations, skeletal remains, and mortuary assemblages to illuminate the lives of children, their families, and communities. The book’s eight chapters cover: 1: The Archaeology of Childhood in Context 2: Childhood in Archaeology: Themes, Terms, and Foundations 3: The Cultural Creation of Childhood: The Idea of Socialization 4: Socialization and the Material Culture of Childhood 5: Socialization, Behavior, and the Spaces and Places of Childhood 6: Socialization, Symbols, and Artistic Representations of Children 7: Socialization, Childhood, and Mortuary Remains 8: Looking Back and Moving Forward This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the major themes in the archaeological study of childhood and introduces the concept of socialization as a way of framing archaeological scholarship on children. Case studies and examples from around the globe are included, and the author’s expertise on childhood in 18th-20th century America is drawn upon to provide more familiar examples for readers allowing them to question their own assumptions and understandings of what it means to be a child. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and learning activities.
Author : Leslie B. Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134284573
First Published in 1985. This is Volume 3 of a series on Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology. In the aftermath of the controversial marketing of infant formula in the Third World, this volume describes infant care and feeding practices within their social, cultural and physical context among fourteen different Melanesian and Polynesian societies. The contributors address such issues as health and nutritional status, women's roles and social support, early socialization, symbolism and meaning of foods and feeding and intracultural variability. The material is valuable to health professionals, nutritionists and social scientists in understanding infant care and feeding practices in underdeveloped regions.