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Moral Figures - Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu (Paperback)
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Moral Figures - Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu (Paperback)
Series: Anthropological Horizons
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In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific
nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in
the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population
growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral
Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and
birth, reproduction in Vanuatu continues to exceed bureaucratic
economization through Ni-Vanuatu insistence on Indigenous
relationalities. Through her examination of how reproduction is
made public, Alexandra Widmer demonstrates how population sciences
have naturalized a focus on women's fertility and privileged issues
of wage labour over women's land access and broader social
relations of reproduction. Widmer draws on oral histories with
retired village midwives and massage healers on the changes to care
for pregnancy and birth, as well as ethnographic research in a
village outside the capital of Port Vila. Locating the Pacific
Islands in global histories of demographic science and the
medicalization of birth, the book presents archival material in a
way that emphasizes bureaucratic practices in how colonial
documents attempted to render Indigenous relationalities of
reproduction governable. While demographic imaginaries and
biomedical practices increasingly frame fertility control as an
investment in the reproductive health of individual bodies, the
Ni-Vanuatu worlds presented in Moral Figures show that
relationships between people, land, knowledge, kin, and care make
reproduction a distributed and assisted process.
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