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Live Virtual Workshop- Anthropology of Birth with Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD
June 2, 2022 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM


Live Virtual Workshop- Anthropology of Birth with Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD
Class 1 – Birth Across Cultures: An Evolutionary Perspective
This is week one of a six week course, participants can join at any time, recordings of previous weeks sessions are available in the course page.
Thursday, June 2, 2:00-4:00pm EDT
This opening session offers an evolutionary perspective on the cultural treatment of human childbirth as a foundation. It’s focus is on bringing a postmodern mentality that incorporates scientific evidence with traditional and professional midwifery knowledge to our cultural understanding and management of birth. In this class you will:
- Learn birth practices across six human subsistence strategies
- Identify premodern similarities across vast cultural differences
- Examine the homogenizing effects of modernization
- Explore the possibilities of postmodern mentality for improving the technocratic treatment of birth
- Address the challenge of reincorporating traditional understandings of birth psychology