PSY 241: Birth Customs Around the World

Use the Table of Contents to go directly to a particular country. Each entry begins with a detailed section on birth.

The essays in the "Cultures" section typically include a section on birth.

Offers first-hand ethnographic research conducted by anthropologists in sixteen different societies and cultures and includes the interdisciplinary perspectives of a social psychologist, a sociologist, an epidemiologist, a staff member of the World Health Organization, and a community midwife.