Everything in India Happens by Jugaad
Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4564547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Luksaite (Keele University, corresponding author), Eva Fiks (0000-0001-5728-9931, Keele University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 703-717 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2021.1952575 |
| PMID | 34314265 |
| OpenAlex | W3186094797 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
Since the introduction of a scheme promoting institutional deliveries in India, dai-mas (traditional midwives) have not become obsolete, but remain integral to institutional caregiving in rural areas in ways that are not always recognized. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan, I discuss two institutional contexts in which dai-mas were encountered - traditional midwife training event and hospital births. By examining how dai-mas' authoritative knowledge is reconfigured within institutions, I suggest that the polysemic Hindi term jugaad - a phrase describing the kinds of improvisation required in resource-poor settings - captures different aspects of dai-mas' relationships with and within institutions and the state of maternal caregiving in rural India
Art · Ethnography · Hindi · Improvisation · Linguistics · Political science · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Global Maternal and Child Health · History
Labour pains and labour power
Birth on the Threshold
Authoritative Knowledge and Its Construction
Anthropology in the margins of the state
Birth in four cultures
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
The return of the Traditional Birth Attendant
Infections and inequalities
Red Tape
Jugaad as systemic risk and disruptive innovation in India
The innovative Indian
Only when the boat has started sinking
Liminal Biopolitics
Cosmopolitical obstetrics
Professionalizing Midwifery
Provisional agency in India
When the field is a ward or a clinic
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |