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Author:   Alexandra Widmer
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781487543204

ISBN 10:   1487543204
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   08 February 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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In this incisive, original, and absorbing book, Alexandra Widmer explores the intersecting politics of demography, reproduction, biomedical knowledge, and Indigenous systems of healing in the south-western Pacific. This engaging and important contribution to medical anthropology is based on both fieldwork in Vanuatu, and a careful analysis of the imperial archive, resonating with wider debates about health care, citizenship, globalization, and the enduring legacies of colonialism, as they inform contemporary identities, policies, and practices within the Pacific and beyond. - Gregory Rawlings, Head of the Social Anthropology Programme, University of Otago With intricate care, Widmer accounts for the problematization of both population decline and growth in Vanuatu. This is the richest of studies on politics and socialities of reproduction, in colonial and postcolonial contexts. A major contribution. - Alison Bashford, author of Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth

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Alexandra Widmer is an associate professor of social anthropology at York University.

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