ISBN:
9781040001165
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
618.20095491/5
Abstract:
As the first major ethnography of Baloch midwives in Pakistan, this book draws on long-term ethnographic research in Balochistan province, showing how dhīnabogs/dheenabogs (Baloch midwives ranging in age from about 30 to 80) and their dhīnabogirī (midwifery) aid women and their kin through labor and postpartum recovery.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note on Balochi to English Translation and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- My Fieldwork Process: Methods and Materials -- Dhīnabogs and Their Dhīnabogirī -- Situating the Dhīnabog vis-à-vis the Dāī/TBA -- But Who Is the TBA? -- Baloch Midwives Unsettle the Haunting Expectations of Hospital Births -- Situating Dhīnabogiri vis-à-vis Anthropology and the Histories of Reproduction -- The Road to and from Panjgūr (See Figures 0.2 and 0.3) -- Chapter Descriptions -- 1 Balochistan and the Panjgūr District: Background and Context -- Panjgūr District -- The Journey to Panjgūr in Makrān, Balochistan -- Developing Balochistan Against Maternal Deaths and Tribalism's "Honor Killings" -- Incorporating Balochistan and Panjgūr -- Constructing Baloch Culture as the Essence of "Tribalism" -- Developmentalism to Secure the Nation's Women From Tribalism and From the Sardhāri System -- Inventing Tribal Misogyny in the Defense of Islam -- The Colonizing Mentality Rebooted With a Different Face -- Saving Women Citizens? -- 2 Using Biomedicine to Secure the Maternal Body From Traditional Midwifery -- On the Use of "Allopathy" -- Maternal Deaths and the Limits of Facility-Based Births -- Standard Global Policies vis-à-vis Local Realities -- Behind the Biological Risk Factors of Maternal Mortality -- Global MMR Trends, Erasing the Ecologies of Women's Lives, and Local Biologies in Balochistan -- Curbing Biomedicalization in the "Times of the Lady" -- The Persistence of Home Births in Panjgūr -- Local Biologies -- The Failures of the Biomedical Establishment and of the Legal State -- Grounding the Orientalist Human Rights Imaginary of the Tribal/Sardhāri System -- 3 Searching for the Dāī: Finding Dhīnabogs, Kawwās, and Balluks.
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