Anthropology 3332F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Prenatal Vitamins

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 3332F/G
• Professor: Andrew Walsh

Document Summary

Chinese state has shifted from concerns about small quantity to a focus on high quality. Rather than an intense focus on a single child there is a focus on quality of the one child. Young women are taught to believe that having a quality baby should depend on scienti c knowledge of maternal health and technological management of their prenatal lives. The grandmother of the child typically moves in with daughter or daughter in law to take care until the kid can go to kindergarten. Three years of eld work in urban zhengzhou. A lot of mothers did not have pleasant pregnancies and said their babies were a burden. A concern and anxiety with the scienti c perinatal treatment. Older mothers critiqued their daughters obsession with birthing a healthy baby. They posited that back in their day they worked until they were in labour and didn"t worry about health of baby. Maoist and post-maoist chinese state"s governing ideologies.