1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790112303321

Autore

Roberts Elizabeth F. S.

Titolo

God's Laboratory : Assisted Reproduction in the Andes / / Elizabeth F. S. Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-280-49196-5

9786613587190

0-520-95225-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Disciplina

616.6 920609866

Soggetti

Fertilization in vitro, Human - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church

Human reproductive technology - Andes Region

Human reproductive technology -- Andes Region

Human reproductive technology - Ecuador

Human reproductive technology -- Ecuador

Medical anthropology - Andes Region

Medical anthropology -- Andes Region

Medical anthropology - Ecuador

Medical anthropology -- Ecuador

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural

Human reproductive technology - Catholic Church - Religious aspects - Ecuador

Fertilization in vitro, Human - Ecuador

Medical anthropology

Persons

Reproductive Techniques

Christianity

Investigative Techniques

Therapeutics

Religion

Humanities

Tissue Donors

Catholicism

Reproductive Techniques, Assisted

Medicine

Health & Biological Sciences



Gynecology & Obstetrics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Cast of Characters -- Preface -- Introduction: Reproductive Assistance -- Corporeal Punishment: Sandra -- 1. Private Medicine and the Law of Life -- Crazy for Bingo: Consuelo -- 2. Assisted Whiteness -- Yo Soy Teresa la Fea/Ugly Teresa -- 3. White Beauty: Gamete Donation in a Mestizo Nation -- When Blood Calls: Frida and Anabela -- 4. Egg Economies and the Traffic between Women -- Abandonment: Vanessa -- 5. On Ice: Embryo Destinies -- Conclusion: Care-Worthy -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts' intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through kin or God. She argues that the Ecuadorian incarnation of reproductive technology is less about a national desire for modernity than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic practice, and kinship configurations. God's Laboratory offers a grounded introduction to critical debates in medical anthropology and science studies, as well as a nuanced ethnography of the interplay between science, religion, race and history in the formation of Andean families.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790914003321

Titolo

Diné perspectives : revitalizing and reclaiming Navajo thought / / edited by Lloyd L. Lee ; foreword by Gregory Cajete

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9892-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies

Disciplina

979.1004/9726

Soggetti

Navajo philosophy

Navajo Indians - Ethnic identity

Navajo Indians - Historiography

Decolonization - Philosophy

Postcolonialism - Philosophy

SOCIAL SCIENCE - General

Navajo

Philosophie

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Gregory Cajete -- Preface / Lloyd L. Lee -- Introduction -- American Indian scholars / Shawn L. Secatero -- Beneath our sacred minds, hands, and hearts : one dissertation journey / Shawn L. Secatero -- Understanding hózhǫ́ to achieve critical consciousness : a contemporary Diné interpretation of the philosophical principles of hózhǫ́ / Vincent Werito -- Morning offerings, like salt / Esther Belin -- 7pm thought, memory @ Dziłnaodiłthle-Eastern view / Venaya Yazzie -- Diné culture, decolinization, and the politics of hózhǫ́ / Larry W. Emerson -- The value of oral history on the path to Diné/Navajo sovereignty / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Narrating ordinary power : hózhǫ́ǫ́jí, violence, and critical Diné studies / Melanie K. Yazzie -- The boy who threw the world away / Venaya Yazzie -- Historic and demographic changes that impact the future of the Diné and the development of community-based policy / Yolynda Begay -- The origin of legibility : rethinking colonialism and resistance among the Navajo



People, 1868-1937 / Andrew Curley -- Dinétah / Venaya Yazzie -- Sustaining a Diné way of life / Kim Baca -- "If I could speak Navajo, I'd definitely speak it 24/7" : Diné youth language consciousness, activism, and reclamation of Diné identity / Tiffany S. Lee -- The Navajo Nation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Lloyd L. Lee -- Atmosphere / Venaya Yazzie -- Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

"The contributors to this pathbreaking book, both scholars and community members, are Navajo (Dine) people who are coming to personal terms with the complex matrix of Dine culture. Their contributions exemplify how Indigenous peoples are creatively applying tools of decolonization and critical research to re-create Indigenous thought and culture for contemporary times"--