COURSE MATERIALS
- Lecture: 4.1. “Medicalization” of everyday life (20 min)
- Lecture: 4.2 Inuit birth (20 min)
- PDF: 4.1. Van Hollen, Cecilia. “Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Modern Birth in South India“
- PDF: 4.2. Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada. “The Inuit Way: A Guide to Inuit Culture”
- Please skim this 40-page document and CAREFULLY READ (don’t skim!) the sections relevant to childrearing and family life.
- Link: 4.1. Daviss, Betty-anne. Chapter 17 – “Heeding Warnings from the Canary, the Whale, and the Inuit: A Framework for
Analyzing Competing Types of Authoritative Knowledge about Childbirth” In Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives - Book: continue reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Chapter Seven and Nine (Note: we will discuss in Week 6)
- Clip: 4.1. “On country birthing. Aboriginal Australian.”
ASSESSMENTS
- Blog Post: Post Prompt – DUE by Friday 7/29 @ 11:59pm EST
- Blog Comments: DUE by Sunday 07/31 @ 11:59pm EST