Bodies, Kin, and Flow
Family Planning in Rural Jamaica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2478305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E J Sobo (0000-0002-7711-9873, Case Western Reserve University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-73 |
| Publication date | 1993-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/maq.1993.7.1.02a00040 |
| OpenAlex | W2023959324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 46 |
This analysis of family planning investigates the links between embodied experiences, sociocultural forms, and ethnophysiological concerns. It focuses on the rural Jamaican concept of flow, which appears in ethnophysiological ideas and kinship beliefs and has ramifications for contraceptive practice. The experience of flow both on the somatic level and in social interaction lends structure to the local models concerning general health, reproductive health and procreation, and social reproduction. Cross-culturally, the flow-related experiences that women have of and through their bodies form the basis for much traditional health knowledge
Biology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Kinship · Reproduction · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Ecology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Jamaican body's role in emotional experience and sense perception
Sovasova and the Problem of Sameness
Body perceptions and satisfaction among adults with excess weight in India
Ethnophysiology and Contraceptive Use Among Low-Income Women in Urban Brazil
Wasting semen
Jumping around’
Blockage and flow
Cross-generational relationships in rural Jamaica
The white blood cell always eat the red’
Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Politics in Peru under Alberto Fujimori
The Social Constructions of Sexuality
Body Mapping to Explore Reproductive Ethno-Physiological Beliefs and Knowledge of Contraception in Timor-Leste
Abortion traditions in rural Jamaica
Pluralism and Pragmatism
From the invisibility of miscarriage to an attribution of life
In accordance with nature
Before HIV you're a human being' - PLWHA and reproduction in Jamaica
Family structure in Jamaica
Women as healers
Folk Medical Beliefs and Their Implications for Care of Patients
The laws of sympathetic magic
Types of Mind and Body
The woman in the body
The Body in the Mind
The Cultural Construction of Sexuality
Kinship and Class in the West Indies
Sex, Contraception, and Motherhood in Jamaica
Natural Symbols
The angry liver, the anxious heart and the melancholy spleen
Women's Power and Social Revolution
Women in Jamaica
Women's Medicine
Personality and Conflict in Jamaica
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Variation in the choice of treatment in two Mexican communities
The Social Function of Anxiety in a Primitive Society
Medical anthropology
The concept of flow in Rwandan popular medicine
Women, household and health in Latin America
My Mother Who Fathered Me; A Study of the Family in Three Selected Communities in Jamaica
Fertility and Mating in Four West Indian Populations
Women's Power and Social Revolution
Gender ideology, childrearing, and child health in Jamaica
The Body's Insistence on Meaning
Working Miracles
My Mother Who Fathered Me
Working Miracles
Afro-Caribbean Folk Medicine
Status and Power in Rural Jamaica
Cultural Notions of Fertility in South Asia and Their Impact on Sri Lankan Family Planning Practices
Side Effects
The Cultural Construction of Aids and Its Consequences for Prevention in Botswana
Sending Sickness
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk
Goals in Reproductive Decision Making
A different disease
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |