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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Albany Midwifery Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Davies, J., Sandall, J., Warwick, C.
core  

Is Your Career Determined by the Stars? Western Zodiac Signs and Labor Market Outcomes in Germany

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An increasing share of people believes that zodiac signs predict life outcomes, like career trajectories, even though there is no scientific basis for this claim. Using German administrative data covering more than 11 million observations from 1 million individuals, we investigate whether Zodiac signs determine labor market outcomes.
Matthias Collischon, Florian Zimmermann
wiley   +1 more source

Medical pluralism and kincentric care in Indigenous Australia: Yanyuwa experiences of illness and the importance of keeping company

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes ...
Amanda Kearney   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source

Obstetric racism in Europe: Linguistic racism, exoticization, and uneven reproduction in the Netherlands

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voices of Mother's Interaction with Midwives in Natural Childbirth: A Qualitative Study

open access: diamond, 2015
Firoozeh Mirzaee Rabor   +2 more
openalex   +2 more sources

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