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Reinscribing the Birthing Body: Homebirth as Ritual Performance

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Cheyney, Melissa

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In this article, I examine the clinical practices engaged in by U.S. homebirth midwives and their clients from the beginning of pregnancy through to the immediate postpartum period, deconstructing them for their symbolic and ritual content. Using data collected from open-ended, semistructured interviews and intensive participant-observation, I describe the roles...

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- 5194, online ISSN 1548-1387. C© 2011 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved
Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves

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Jenkins, Dennis L., Davis, Loren G., Stafford, Thomas W., Jr., Campos, Paula F., Hockett, Bryan, Jones, George T., Cummings, Linda Scott, Yost, Chad, Connolly, Thomas J., Yohe, Robert M., II, Gibbons, Summer C., Raghavan, Maanasa, Rasmussen, Morten, Paijmans, Johanna L. A., Hofreiter, Michael, Kemp, Brian M., Barta, Jodi Lynn, Monroe, Cara, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., and Willerslev, Eske

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The Paisley Caves in Oregon record the oldest directly dated human remains (DNA) in the Western Hemisphere. More than 100 high-precision radiocarbon dates show that deposits containing artifacts and coprolites ranging in age from 12,450 to 2295 ¹⁴C years ago are well stratified. Western Stemmed projectile points were recovered in...

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involved (6–10)? In the American Far West, the Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) is recog- nized as the

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Reinscribing the Birthing Body: Homebirth as Ritual Performance

Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves

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