Birthing in the Pacific : beyond tradition and modernity? / edited by Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly.

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi, [2002], ©2002.

xi, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Introduction: Birthing beyond the confinements of tradition and modernity? / Margaret Jolly -- From Māʻuli to motivator: transformations in reproductive health care in Tonga / Helen Morton -- Childbirth in Papua New Guinenan villages and in Port Moresby General Hospital / Ruta Fiti-Sinclair -- Obligatory maternity and diminished reproductive autonomy in Aʻjië and Paici Kanak societies: a female perspective / Christine Salomon -- Native obstetric nursing in Fiji / Vicki Lukere -- Colonial impregnations: reconceptions of maternal health practice on Nuaʻata, Papua New Giunea / Shelley Mallett -- From darkness to light? epidemiologies and ethnographies of motherhood in Vanuatu / Margaret Jolly -- Conclusion: Wider reflections and a survey of literature / Vicki Lukere.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-231) and index.