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Article: The Anthropology of Pregnancy: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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CECIL, ROSANNE (ed.). xii, 226 pp., tables, bibliogr. Oxford, Washington: Berg, 1996. [pounds]29.95 (cloth), [pounds]12.95 (paper)
Given that both birth and death are important themes for anthropological inquiry, it is significant that we have previously lacked an anthropological perspective on pregnancy loss, for it is, as Roseanne Cecil points out, 'simultaneous birth and death, death of one who never was'. This volume is a valuable contribution in redressing that omission. The book is divided into two sections: 'Ethnographic' and 'Other Studies'. In the first five chapters the contributors provide accounts of pregnancy loss in N. India, Jamaica, Papua New ...