The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife's Tale

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.

Author: Laurie a. Wilkie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/26/2003
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780415945707

About the Author

Laurie Wilkie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Creating Freedom (Louisana State University Press 2000) and Ethnicity, Community and Power(University of South Carolina Press 1994).