The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife's Tale
, by Wilkie,Laurie A.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415945691 | 0415945690
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/3/2003
Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. The female head of this household, Lucrecia Perryman, turned to midwifery to support her family and as a midwife, became a vehicle for transmitting cultural, social, and political knowledge regarding mothering performance and practice to the broader African-American community.