Conceiving Persons : Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth,9780826463654

Conceiving Persons : Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780826463654
ISBN10: 0826463657
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-02-01
Publisher(s): Berg Pub Ltd
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Summary

This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts.

Author Biography

Peter Loizos is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Patrick Heady holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and works at the Office for National Statistics.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
Introduction
1(18)
Peter Loizos
Patrick Heady
No substance, no kinship? Procreation, performativity and Temanambondro parent--child relations
19(28)
Philip Thomas
Procreation theories and their implications: overcoming the absent father in southern Tanzania
47(22)
Maia Green
Making persons, marking differences: procreation beliefs in highland Bolivia
69(20)
Andrew Canessa
Every infant is born with its `younger sibling': childbirth and care among Amurang fishermen
89(24)
Sini Cedercreutz
Women, work and procreation beliefs in two Muslim communities
113(26)
Ildiko Beller-Hann
Procreation in Islam: a reading from Egypt of people and texts
139(22)
Hania M. Sholkamy
The light of life: representations of procreation, divinity and property in Carnia and Anatolia
161(16)
Patrick Heady
The essence of being: procreation and sexuality in mid-century Macedonia
177(24)
Ilka Thiessen
Procreation metaphors in rural Greece: cultivating, bread-making, weaving
201(18)
Theodore Paradellis
Procreation, patriarchy and medical science: the resistance to recognizing maternal contributions in European embryological thought
219(24)
Julia Stonehouse
Bibliography 243(33)
Index 276

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