Marriage and Mandatory Abortion Among the 17Th-Century Siraya (American Ethnological Society Monograph Series)

By John Robert Shepherd

Book Overview

In 1628 a detailed ethnographic description of the Siraya, the Austronesian inhabitants of southwestern Taiwan, reported that Siraya priestesses mandated abortion for all young wives. Since that time... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913167711
• ISBN13: 9780913167717
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: American Anthropological Association
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"