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Chapter Four was published in different form as “Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Modern Birth in South India,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17, no. 1 (March 2003). Chapter Five was published in an earlier form as “Moving Targets: Routine IUD Insertion in Maternity Wards in Tamil Nadu, India,” Reproductive Health Matters 6, no. 11 (May 1997); and Chapter Six was published in different form in Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel London, eds., The Daughters of Hariti: Birth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia (London: Routledge, 2002). All are reprinted here by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale

Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0–520–22358–6 (cloth : alk. paper)—

ISBN 0–520–22359–4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Childbirth—India, South. I. Title.

RG530.3.I42 I583 2003

618.2′00954—dc21

2003003890

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