Where There Is No Midwife : Birth and Loss in Rural India

Note on Transliterations viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Work: Where There Is No Midwife 29 2. Bodies: The Poisonous Lotus 72 3. Medicine: Development Without Institutions 106 4. Seeing: Visuality in Pregnancy 141 5. Dying: In the Big, Big Hands of God 178 6. Ideals: Ciphers of Tradition 211 7. Talk: Casting Desire 244 Epilogue 291 Notes 296 Works Cited 302 Index 321