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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786813503321

Autore

Clarke Alison

Titolo

Born to a changing world : childbirth in nineteenth-century New Zealand / / Alison Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wellington, New Zealand : , : Bridget Williams Books, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-927327-23-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Disciplina

618.20993

Soggetti

Childbirth - New Zealand - History - 19th century

Childbirth - History - New Zealand

Infants - Care - New Zealand - History - 19th century

Whānau (Wāhine)

Pēpē

Whānau (Wāhine)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Open air and the Whare Kōhanga: Māori birth ways -- 2. Lying in: Pākehā birth ways -- 3. 'Destitute and ailing': giving birth in hospital -- 4. 'What beautiful children these are!': clothing the baby -- 5. From wet nursing to condensed milk: changes in infant feeding -- 6. Christening, churching and circumcision: the religious rituals of childbirth -- 7. 'The angel of death was waiting for them': maternal illness and death -- 8. 'She has no baby now to call her mother' : infant death -- Appendix: Court cases.

Sommario/riassunto

Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the 'voices' of this history tell of new life amidst a turbulent world. Tracing Maori and Pakeha experience, the narrative is centred on mothers, their babies and families: this is their history.