Birth and Belief in the Andes of Ecuador
(Stock Number: 06022DVD)
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Birth and Belief in the Andes of Ecuador is an intimate portrait of women living in the Andes of Ecuador; their beliefs and practices surrounding childbirth. Deprived until recently of modern medical care rural Andean women have managed their reproductive practices based on an ethnomedical system that uses pre-Columbian magical elements. Although based on folk medicine the prescribed practices usually confer real physical and emtional benefits to mothers and their children.
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