The Archaeology of Mothering
An African-American Midwife's Tale
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-94570-7
- Binding: Paperback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 26th August 2003
- Pages: 272
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About the Book
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.
About the Author(s)
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).
