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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.
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.
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.
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