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

1. Blog Post: Post Prompt – DUE by Friday 7/29 @ 11:59pm EST
2. Blog Comments: DUE by Sunday 07/31 @ 11:59pm EST