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Awards. Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association. Excellence in Science and Technology Award from the Xerox Corporation. Brigitte Jordan was a German-American professor, scientist, and consultant who was described as the midwife to the "Anthropology of Birth". [1]
Jan 8, 2021 · Practicing Anthropology (2021) 43 (1): 41–48. https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.43.1.41. Share. Tools. Abstract. In this essay, we (re)present Brigitte Jordan’s concept of authoritative knowledge via a three-way conversation or trialogue with Jordan, who passed away in 2017.
- Melissa Cheyney, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Brigitte Jordan
- 2021
The Brigitte Jordan papers document the work of German-American anthropologist Brigitte Jordan from the 1970s to the early 2000s, in particular her study of cross-cultural birth practices in the 1970s. The collection consists of field notes, audiovisual materials, photographs, reports, presentations, and research materials.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. Since the publication of Brigitte Jordan's 1978 book, Birth In Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan , Holland, Sweden and the United States. We have witnessed the burgeoning of the Anthropology of Birth.
- Cecilia Van Hollen
- 1994
Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States is an anthropological study of childbirth by Brigitte Jordan published in 1978. Background. Throughout the book Jordan explores the birth practices of four different cultures: the Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States.
Brigitte Jordan is midwife to the anthropology of childbirth.” — Robert A. Hahn, Emory University “The original edition of Birth in Four Cultures signaled a new level of detailed empirical investigation into birth as a sociocultural process.
Average rating: 4.15 · 273 ratings · 26 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors. Birth in Four Cultures : A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States. by. Brigitte Jordan, Robbie Davis-Floyd.
