Book
Mexican-American and Anglo midwifery in San Antonio, Texas
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Keyes, Grace Granger.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This Ph.D. dissertation compares Mexican-American and Anglo lay midwifery in San Antonio, Texas, emphasizing the importance of sociocultural factors in childbirth practices. The subjects covered in this study are lay midwifery in general, birth ideologies, the American way of birth, a comparison of Anglo and Hispanic midwifery, boundaries of Anglo and Hispanic midwifery, data on the careers of two midwives, a description of a lay midwife attended home birth, notes on statistical information of births and fetal deaths, and a glossary of medical terms. Most of the data on Anglo midwifery have not been categorized for this file.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Postnatal care
- Medical personnel
- Pregnancy
- Medical care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1986-1987
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920s - 1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Antonio, Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Grace Granger Keyes
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1985
- UM8600831
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-273)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans