Conceiving persons : the symbolism of procreation, fertility and growth / Peter Loizos and Patirck Heady.
By: Loizos, Peter
Contributor(s): Heady, Patrick
Language: English Publisher: London : Athlone Press, 1999.Description: vii, 282p. : ill. ; 22cm.ISBN: 0485195682
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Bibl.: p. 243-275. Contents: Introduction / Peter Loizos and Patrick Heady; No substance, no kinship?: procreation, performativity and Temanambondro parent-child relations / Philip Thomas; Procreation theories and their implications: overcoming the absent father in southern Tanzania / Maia Green; Making persons, marking differences: procreation beliefs in highland Bolivia / Andrew Canessa; Every infant is born with its "younger sibling": childbirth and care among Amurang fishermen / Sini Cedercreutz; Women, work and procreation beliefs in two Muslim communities / Ildiko Bellér-Hann; Procreation in Islam: a reading from Egypt of people and texts / Hania M. Sholkamy; The light of life: representations of procreation, divinity and property in Carnia and Anatolia / Patrick Heady; The essence of being: procreation and sexuality in mid-century Macedonia / Ilka Thiessen; Procreation metaphors in rural Greece: cultivating, bread-making, weaving / Theodore Paradellis; Procreation, patriarchy and medical science: the resistance to recognizing maternal contributions in European embryological thought / Julia Stonehouse.