The Untamed "shrew": Managing reproduction as cultural practice
Keywords:
human reproduction,
women,
children,
population policy,
anthropology
Abstract
Managing reproduction as an appliance of Western family planning to the Third World - mostly, could be subject of the anthropological inquiry by investigating the population po- licy, but also by supplying anthropological methods and expertise to the policy-makers. Basic social and cultural factors of human reproduction are discussed in the paper, with an accent on local contexts, when reviewing reproductive concepts and practices.
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DHS Report. 2005. Indonesia 2002–03: Results from the Demographic and Health Survey. Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 36 No. 1: 85–89.
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Govindasamy, Pavalavalli and Anju Malhotra. 1996. Women's position and family planning in Egypt. Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 28 No. 6: 328–340.
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Harcourt, Wendy. A. 1997. An Analysis of Reproductive Health: Myths, Resistance and New Knowledge. In: W. A. Harcourt (ed.), Power, Reproduction and Gender: The International Transfer of Knowledge, London: Zed Books, 8-34.
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Holroyd, Eleanor, Ann E. Mackenzie. 1997. Beijing Families: The Behavior and Sentiment of Caregiving. Journal of Family Nursing, Vol. 3 No. 4: 348-364.
Howard-Grabman, Lisa, Cynthia P. Willis, Elizabeth Arteaga, Carla Queierolo And Ccolla, Sejas Pérez. 2003. A "Dialogue Of Knowledge". Approach To Better Reproductive, Sexual And Child Health in Rural Andean Communities. In: Andrea Cornwall and Alice Welbourn (eds.), Realizing Rights: Transforming Approaches to Sexual and Reproductive Well-being, New York: Zed Books.
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Knodel, John Vipan Prachuabmoh Ruffolo, Pakamas Ratanalangkarn, Kua Wongboonsin. 1996. Reproductive preferences and fertility trends in post-transition Thailand. Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 27 No. 6: 307–318.
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Martin, Diana. 1997. Motherhood in Hong Kong: The Working Mother and Child-Care in the Parent-Centred Hong Kong Family’. In: Grant Evans and Tam, Maria (eds.). Hong Kong: The Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis . Richmond: Curzon Press, 198-219.
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Montgomery, Heather. 2001. Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand, New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Montgomery, Heather and Rachel Burr. 2003. Children, Poverty and Social Inequality. In Rachel Burr, (eds.), Changing Childhoods: Local and Global, Wiley, The Open University Pong Suet-ling. 1994. Sex preference and fertility in peninsular Malaysia. Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 25 No. 3: 137–148.
Robertson, Alexander. F.. 1991. Beyond the Family: the Social Organisation of Human Reproduction, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Tilson Piotrow, Phyllis and Jose G. Rimon, II. 1999. Asia's Population and Family Planning Programmes: Leaders in Strategic Communication. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 14 No. 4: 73-90.
Tremayne, Soraya (ed.). 2002, Managing Reproductive Life. Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality, New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Tremayne, Soraya. 2002a. Introduction, to Tremayne 2002, 1-24.
Unnithan-Kumar, Maya. 2002a. Emotion, Agency and Access to Healthcare: Women’s Experiences of Reproduction in Jaipur, In Tremayne 2002, 27-51.
Unnithan-Kumar, Maya. 2002b. Midwives among Others: Knowledges of Healing and the Politics of Emotions in Rajasthan, Northwest India, in Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel eds., Daughters of Hariti: Child birth and Female healers in South and Southeast Asia. London/ New York: Routledge.
Unnithan-Kumar, Maya. 2004. Conception Technologies, Local Healers and Negotiations around Childbearing in Rajasthan. In Maya Unnithan- Kumar (ed.), Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State. Oxford: Berghahn.
Žikić, Bojan. 1997. Antropologija Edmunda Liča. Posebna izdanja EI SANU 43. Beograd.
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Žikić, Bojan. 2008. “The Untamed "Shrew": Managing Reproduction As Cultural Practice”. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 3 (1), 143-57. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v3i1.7.
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