."..a fascinating new ethnography on birth and infant death and the
ways in which these twin events serve as sites for the construction
of political subjectivity in areas of rural North India where
multiple development projects and discourses converge, leaving in
their wake both excess and lack...it provides provocative insights
into some of the forces that set our globe offkilter." Medical
Anthropological Quarterly
"Drawing on the theoretical literature of medical anthropology
as well as that of psychoanalysis, this is a complex, multilayered
work. Pinto is a fine writer, and throughout the book her
ethnography... that] holds together brilliantly... beautifully
illuminates her theoretical argument... and] makes a significant
contribution to the literature on reproduction, globalization, and
development in India." South East Review of Asian Studies
.".. the] ethnography is...rich, topical, and
thought-provoking." JRAI
"Pinto masterfully intertwines reproductive health experiences
of women in Uttar Pradesh with wider concerns...Pinto's book is a
valuable contribution to the anthropology of childbirth in India.
The author has produced an insightful work enriched with detailed
ethnographic descriptions, intense case studies, and nuanced
personal reflections on her fieldwork and the production of
ethnographic knowledge." Anthropos
In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region
with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are
poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the
daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the
women's own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of
making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This
book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion,
domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and
household and neighborly relations that these women are able to
access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and
access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on
ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and
death, a new vision of "untouchability" emerges that is integral to
visions of progress.
Sarah Pinto is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts
University. She teaches courses on medical anthropology, gender,
and feminist and social theory, with particular attention to
cultures of biomedicine, kinship, and political, cultural, and
epistemological concerns related to the human body. Her geographic
area of specialization is India. She is co-editor of Postcolonial
Disorders (University of California 2008), and author of numerous
articles on medicine and health intervention in South Asia. She is
completing an ethnography of psychiatry's treatment of women
patients in urban India, asking how kinship and legal processes
related to family life shape clinical practice, and how clinical
practice informs subjectivities in and of intimacy. This work is
particularly interested in the stakes of mental illness for
divorced or divorcing women in India, and asks what these
circumstances can tell us about the place of gender in framing
culturally relevant ethical frameworks. Pinto is currently
developing a research project on the transnational history of
hysteria, focusing on dialogues on hysteria between India and
Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries and their role in shaping
contemporary etiologies.
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