Home Institution
Marlboro College
Publication Date
Fall 2011
Abstract
In attempts to gain a level of understanding of a community’s localized experiences, beliefs, practices, and roles around pregnancy and childbirth, ethnographic fieldwork was conducted with the mothers and fathers of Phaphlu in the Solukhumbu district of Nepal. Aimed at the validation of diverse and localized ways of knowing revealed during the fieldwork period, this paper applies anthropologist Bridgette Jordan’s theoretical framework of authoritative knowledge to the emergent themes of subjectively understood childbirth (knowledge acquisition and flow, role of the husband, and protective behavior.)
Disciplines
Civic and Community Engagement | Family, Life Course, and Society | Maternal and Child Health | Maternal, Child Health and Neonatal Nursing | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Marsden, Cailin, "When Mountain Bellies Grow Round: Localized Knowledge and Behaviors Facilitating Pregnancy and Childbirth in Phaphlu, Nepal" (2011). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 1232.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/1232
Included in
Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Maternal and Child Health Commons, Maternal, Child Health and Neonatal Nursing Commons, Women's Studies Commons
Program Name
Nepal: Tibetan and Himalayan Peoples