The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures.
This article focuses on female-gendered activities in Mesoamerican culture and reveals a strong link between conception, pregnancy, and childbirth on the one hand and weaving and other activities that produce cloth on the other. Supporting evidence from sources such as codices painted during the Pos...
| Publicado en: | Ethnohistory Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 689 - 720 |
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Duke University Press
Oct2019
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