Gertrude Jacinta Fraser
Biographic Data
| ID | 199091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gertrude Jacinta Fraser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gertrude Jacinta |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraser |
| SIGNATURE | FRASER G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8670-1048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Harnessing Ignorance
Fracasopolicy
Fatalism Knowledge and Inquiry in African American Family Stories of Death Premonition
In stories of unexpected death, rural African Americans investigate signs of premonition and personal destiny in the predeath behavior, biographical attributes, and conversations of deceased relatives. Premonition is clouded in misdirection; stories explore the conundrum that the future is known and actively communicated by those who will die, but the information only becomes accessible to the living after the person's death. Latent predictive po…
African American Midwifery in the South
African American Midwifery in the South
Journal Article African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birthy Race, and Memory. By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 287 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00852-9.) Get access Susan L. Smith Susan L. Smith University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 805–806, https://…
Fatalism Knowledge and Inquiry in African American Family Stories of Death Premonition
In stories of unexpected death, rural African Americans investigate signs of premonition and personal destiny in the predeath behavior, biographical attributes, and conversations of deceased relatives. Premonition is clouded in misdirection; stories explore the conundrum that the future is known and actively communicated by those who will die, but the information only becomes accessible to the living after the person's death. Latent predictive po…
African American Midwifery in the South
Journal Article African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birthy Race, and Memory. By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 287 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00852-9.) Get access Susan L. Smith Susan L. Smith University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 805–806, https://…
African American Midwifery in the South
Fatalism Knowledge and Inquiry in African American Family Stories of Death Premonition
In stories of unexpected death, rural African Americans investigate signs of premonition and personal destiny in the predeath behavior, biographical attributes, and conversations of deceased relatives. Premonition is clouded in misdirection; stories explore the conundrum that the future is known and actively communicated by those who will die, but the information only becomes accessible to the living after the person's death. Latent predictive po…
Fracasopolicy
Harnessing Ignorance
Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Race (biology (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works)