Anthropology of Reproduction: The Basics

Anthropology of Reproduction: The Basics is a clear and accessible guide to topics in reproduction from the perspective of anthropology, emphasizing the central importance of reproduction in human sociocultural and biological experience.

List of contents

1. Why reproduction matters and what the anthropology of reproduction offers, 2. Menstruation, contraception, and abortion, 3. Infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, and reproductive losses, 4. Pregnancy and birth, 5. Postpartum, infant, and other care, 6. Struggles and movements toward reproductive justice

About the author

Sallie Han is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Oneonta, USA. She is the author of Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US (2013), co-editor of The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction (2022). Cecília Tomori is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA. She is the author of Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma (2014), co-editor of Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction (2022), and numerous other publications.

Summary

Anthropology of Reproduction: The Basics is a clear and accessible guide to topics in reproduction from the perspective of anthropology, emphasizing the central importance of reproduction in human sociocultural and biological experience.

Product details

• Authors: Sallie Han, Sallie Tomori Han, Han Sallie, Cecília Tomori
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032459561
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245956-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Basics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Reproductive Medicine, Social and cultural anthropology, Human biology, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Medical Anthropology