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Embodying Culture - Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Hardcover, New)
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Embodying Culture - Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Hardcover, New)
Series: Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice
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"With finely crafted ethnography, Tsipy Ivry engages her readers in
the most intimate of experiences-pregnancy. Research in Japan and
Israel reveals how medical knowledge and technologies are made use
of differentially in these two locations by both physicians and
women to accomplish a remarkably dissimilar embodiment of future
motherhood. Ivry's position is that concern about the ramifications
of technologically assisted reproduction should not usurp
representations of the cultures of pregnancy." -Margaret Lock,
author of Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of
Death "A fascinating double-ethnography of pregnancy in two
cultures. This outstanding book reveals stunning cultural
differences in the interpretation of the embodied experience of
pregnancy. In spite of their mutual technological sophistication,
Japanese and Israeli views on pregnancy could hardly be more
different, nor could the biomedical advice that women in each
culture receive. Ivry's work takes Brigitte Jordan's analysis of
birth in four cultures to a new level, focusing specifically on the
cultural influences that profoundly affect both women's and
obstetricians' perceptions and management of pregnancy, and deeply
demonstrating the influence of culture on biomedical 'science.'"
-Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage
With all of the burgeoning social interest in new reproductive
technologies and in childbirth, why has pregnancy been forgotten?
Isn't pregnancy just as culturally variant as other aspects of
reproduction? Embodying Culture looks at pregnancy as much more
than just "expecting." Tsipy Ivry juxtaposes pregnancy in two
non-western postindustrial democracies, one preoccupied with
military conflicts and existential threats (Israel), the other
horrified by the graying of society and shrinking birth rates
(Japan). Through ethnographic exploration of pregnancy experiences
of Japanese and Israeli women and comparative study of ob-gyns and
the bioemedical cultures that medicalize pregnancy in divergent
ways, Ivry illuminates pregnancy as a meaningful cultural category
for social analysis: a first step toward an anthropology of
pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry is a lecturer in anthropology at the
department of sociology and anthropology at the University of
Haifa, Israel. A volume in the Studies in Medical Anthropology
series, edited by Mac Marshall
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