This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction
and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan,
who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of
birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge--the knowledge
that counts, on the basis of which decisions are made and actions
taken--highlights the vast differences between birthing systems
that give authority of knowing to women and their communities and
those that invest it in experts and machines.
"Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge" offers first-hand
ethnographic research conducted by anthropologists in sixteen
different societies and cultures and includes the interdisciplinary
perspectives of a social psychologist, a sociologist, an
epidemiologist, a staff member of the World Health Organization,
and a community midwife. Exciting directions for further research
as well as pressing needs for policy guidance emerge from these
illuminating explorations of authoritative knowledge about birth.
This book is certain to follow Jordan's "Birth in Four Cultures" as
the definitive volume in a rapidly expanding field.
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