Traditional Midwives : Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Hardcover)

Introduction: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Traditional Midwives?Robbie Davis-Floyd, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Inayat Ali??1. Authoritative Knowledge: A Trialogue on Ways of Doing, Teaching, and Learning About Birth?Melissa Cheyney, Robbie Davis-Floyd, and Brigitte Jordan (posthumously)??Part 1.?Traditional Midwives In Mexico: In Homage To Brigitte Jordan, Founding Mother Of The Anthropologies Of Midwifery And Birth??2. Regulating Traditional Mexican Midwifery: Practices of Control, Strategies of Resistance?Mounia El Kotni??3. Integrating Traditional Midwives into the State Healthcare System: A Critical Case Study from Chiapas, Mexico?Margaret Buckner, Mariana Montano, and Iris Vanegas??4. Community Power as the Source for Valuing and Validating Traditional Midwifery in Mexico?Nancy Paola Chavez Arias??5. A Tale of Three Midwives: Inconsistent Policies and the Marginalization of Midwifery in Mexico?Lydia Dixon, Mounia El Kotni, and Veronica Miranda??6. Two Traditional Midwives in Mexico: Re-Turning to the Essence of Traditional Midwifery?Sabrina Speich??Part 2. Traditional Midwives In Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Aotearoa New Zealand, Pakistan, Laos, Peru, Norway, Guatemala, And India??7. Traditional Midwives in Nigeria, the Importance of Their Work, How They Are Perceived by Biomedical Maternity Care Professionals and Mothers, and How Traditional Midwives Perceive Biomedical Maternity Care Practitioners?Andrew Donatus Abue??8. The Roles of Traditional Midwives during Healthcare Crises in Kenya: Experiences from the Giriama Community in Coastal Kenya?Stephen Okumu Ombere??9. Traditional Birth Escorts? Reexamining the Work and Needs of Traditional Midwives in Rural Tanzania?Megan Cogburn??10. Indigenous Midwives and the Biomedical System among the Karamojong of Uganda: Introducing the Partnership Paradigm?Sally Graham and Robbie Davis-Floyd??11. Cradling the Renaissance of Ng?i Tahu Customary Maternity Knowledge through Ancient Lullabies?Kelly Tikao??12. Traditional Midwives and Home Births in Rural Sindh Province, Pakistan: Exploring Maternal Healthcare Practices and Preferences?Salma Sadique, Inayat Ali, and Shahbaz Ali? 13. Baloch Midwives in Pakistan Challenge the Haunting Expectations of Hospital Births?Fouzieyha Towghi??14.When the Traditional Midwife Is a Man: Reimagining Traditional Midwifery in Laos and Globally?Pascale Hancart Petitet??15. The Afterlife of Andean?Parteras: The Provision of “Shadow Reproductive Care” and the Ironies of Expertise?Rebecca Irons??16. Standing with Ancestral Authority in Guatemala:?Comadronas’?Tireless Historical Services Win Partial Redemption?Luisa Araneda, Ingrid Gonzalez, Betty-Anne Daviss, translation by Fernando Rodriguez??17. Sami Midwifery in Times of Transition?Anne-Hedvig Salmi Nordsletta and Anna-Lill Drugge??18. Traces of the Traditional: The Emergence of Professional Midwifery Practices in Contemporary India?Sreya Majumdar??Conclusions?Robbie Davis-Floyd, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Inayat Ali