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Embodying Culture
Price: $28.95
Subtitle: Pregnancy in Japan
and Israel
Author:
Tsipy Ivry
Subject: Anthropology
/ Health
and Medicine
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4636-0
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4635-3
Pages:
344 pages
Publication Date: November 2009
Series:
Studies
in Medical Anthropology
Praise for Embodying Culture
"Tsipy Ivry's finely
crafted ethnography of pregnancy in Japan and Israel reveals how the
embodiment of motherhood is remarkably different in these two settings."—Margaret Lock, author of Twice Dead: Organ Transplants
and the Reinvention of Death
Description:
Embodying
Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy
in two different cultures—Japan and Israel—both of which medicalize
pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry
focuses on “low-risk” or “normal” pregnancies, using cultural
comparison to explore
the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local
reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local
modes of maternal agency.
The ethnography pieces together the voices of pregnant Japanese and
Israeli women, their doctors, their partners, the literature they read,
and depicts various clinical encounters such as ultrasound scans,
explanatory classes for amniocentesis, birthing classes, and special
pregnancy events.
The emergent pictures suggest that athough experiences of pregnancy in
Japan and Israel differ, pregnancy in both cultures is an
energy-consuming project of meaning-making— suggesting that the sense
of biomedical technologies are not only in the technologies themselves but
are assigned by those who practice and experience them.
About the Author:
Tsipy Ivry is a
lecturer in anthropology at the department of sociology and
anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel.
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