The Archaeology of Mothering

Description:

"Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. The female head of this household, Lucrecia Perryman, turned to midwifery to support her family and as a midwife, became a vehicle for transmitting cultural, social, and political knowledge to the broader African-American community. As this compelling work moves outward, beginning with the site and its one-time occupants, the story continues to widen, broadening to midwifery in general, and finally mediating on the ideology of mothering."--Publisher.

subjects: Mutterschaft,  Mothers,  Women slaves,  Moederschap,  Motherhood,  Midwifery,  Archeologie,  Slavernij,  African American mothers,  History,  Negers,  Maternal Behavior,  African American midwives,  Social Problems,  Social conditions,  Hebamme,  African Americans,  Biography,  Weibliche Schwarze,  African american women,  Midwives,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Medical,  HEALTH & FITNESS,  Pregnancy & Childbirth,  Schwarze Frau,  Black People,  Archaeology and history,  Antiquities