The Daughters of Hariti Book

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: the daughters of Hariti today	1
Pt. I	South Asia	35
2	'We know how to do these things': birth in a Newar village	37
3	Knowing all the gods: grandmothers, god families and women healers in Nepal	70
4	Contaminating states: midwifery, childbearing and the state in rural North India	90
5	Midwives among others: knowledges of healing and the politics of emotions in Rajasthan, Northwest India	109
6	The healer on the margins: the dai in rural Bangladesh	130
7	Hawa, gola and mother-in-law's big toe: on understanding dais' imagery of the female body	147
8	'Baby-friendly' hospitals and bad mothers: manoeuvring development in the post-partum period in Tamil Nadu, South India	163
9	Tibetan and Indian ideas of birth pollution: similarities and contrasts	182
Pt. 2	Southeast Asia	209
10	The demise of birth attendants in Northeast Thailand: embodying tradition in modern times	211
11	Beranak and bekindu': discourses of risk and strength in childbirth and post-partum practice among Iban communities of Pakan	234
12	Of paraji and bidan: hierarchies of knowledge among Sundanese midwives	256
13	Embracing modernity: transformations in Sasak confinement practices	279
	Index	299