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The combined forces of mission evangelism and colonial intervention
have transformed the everyday family life of Pacific peoples. The
dramatic changes that affected the political and economic autonomy
of indigenous people in the region also had significant effects on
domestic life. This book, originally published in 1989, examines
the ways in which this happened. Using the insights of history and
anthropology, chapters cover a wide range of geographical range,
extending from Hawaii to Australia. The authors examine changes in
medicine and health, religious beliefs, architecture and
settlement, and the restructuring of the domestic realm. The book
raises issues of concern to a wide range of interests: the peoples
and history of the Pacific, the broader questions of colonialism
and missionary endeavour, and the changing structure of the family.
Feminist theories have often focused on contemporary, Western,
middle-class experiences of maternity. This volume brings other
mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to
show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience
for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a
wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on
ethnographic and historical research, they explore the
relationships between motherhood as embodied experience and the
local discourses on maternity. They show how the experience of
motherhood has been influenced by missionaries, by colonial
policies, and by the introduction of Western medicine and
biomedical birthing methods, and raise important questions about
the costs and benefits of becoming a modern mother in these
societies.
This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the
background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging
introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua
New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how
simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices,
technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and
foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be
potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public
health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and
maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly
analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts. The introduction
analyzes central concepts and themes: questions of survival,
safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices,
and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and
nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction.
Contributors--four anthropologists, a historian, and a community
health worker--offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and
nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of
tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific
childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to
relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the
collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation
through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women's past
powers in reproduction. Contributors: Ruta Fiti-Sinclair, Margaret
Jolly, Vicki Lukere, Shelley Mallett, Helen Morton, Christine
Salomon.
Many have written about the way in which a "family romance"
connects embodied daily life with the imagined community of the
nation, and naturalizes the nation so that it appears not as a
novel, fragile contingent creation, but as something ancient,
robust and real. This book goes beyond such metaphoric associations
of families and nations by looking at the central significance of
planning families to promoting state development. It also considers
the way that state power is accommodated and resisted, complicit
with and contested by other powers grounded in relations of
kinship, ethnicity, religion, and class.
Through an exploration of richly varied national histories, the
authors highlight the common recurring intimacies between marking
the borders of states and remolding the bodies of women as
reproductive citizens. The tensions between past and present,
between local, national and international concerns, and between men
and women's interests in reproduction are all graphically
revealed.
Surveying the relationship between the emerging models of
citizenship and state population projects in several Asian
states--India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and the
Pacific states of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and
Vanuatu--"Borders of Being" will attract readers in the several
disciplines of anthropology, demography, and history as well as the
cross disciplinary fields of gender and development studies.
Margaret Jolly is Professor and Convenor of the Gender Relations
Project, Australian National University. Kalpana Ram is Research
Fellow, Australian Research Council, Macquarie University.
Many have written about the way in which a "family romance"
connects embodied daily life with the imagined community of the
nation, and naturalizes the nation so that it appears not as a
novel, fragile contingent creation, but as something ancient,
robust and real. This book goes beyond such metaphoric associations
of families and nations by looking at the central significance of
planning families to promoting state development. It also considers
the way that state power is accommodated and resisted, complicit
with and contested by other powers grounded in relations of
kinship, ethnicity, religion, and class.
Through an exploration of richly varied national histories, the
authors highlight the common recurring intimacies between marking
the borders of states and remolding the bodies of women as
reproductive citizens. The tensions between past and present,
between local, national and international concerns, and between men
and women's interests in reproduction are all graphically
revealed.
Surveying the relationship between the emerging models of
citizenship and state population projects in several Asian
states--India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and the
Pacific states of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and
Vanuatu--"Borders of Being" will attract readers in the several
disciplines of anthropology, demography, and history as well as the
cross disciplinary fields of gender and development studies.
Margaret Jolly is Professor and Convenor of the Gender Relations
Project, Australian National University. Kalpana Ram is Research
Fellow, Australian Research Council, Macquarie University.
Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, experiences of maternity. This volume shows that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood in Asia and the Pacific, revealing how the experience of motherhood has been influenced by missionaries, colonial policies, and the introduction of Western medicine and biomedical birthing methods. They raise important questions about the costs and benefits of becoming a modern mother in these societies.
Discussions of sexuality in Asia and the Pacific have long been
tinged with conceptions of the exotic Orient. Examining a world of
erotic encounter between European, Asian, and Pacific people, these
essays explore how sexual practices and sexual meanings have been
constructed across cultural borders in Thailand, the Philippines,
Burma/Myanmar, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the Polynesian
islands. Considering sexuality as embedded in a complex social and
political world structured and saturated by gender, race, and class
relations, these scholars challenge the categories with which sex
and gender have been named and studied. They examine these sites of
desire through specific historic and cultural circumstances, from
the first explorations of Europeans, through colonial power, to the
contemporary issues of sexual tourism, prostitution, and the
HIV/AIDS pandemic.
A unique and important contribution to the study of sexuality, this
book also suggests that the history of sexuality in the West was
shaped by myths of the legendary Orient and the exotic "Other."
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