BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4354-3255e92de05e19cbcd22e0ca01267bda@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260521T183246Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T130000 SUMMARY:“Indigenous Cultural Frameworks, Local Colonialisms, and the Postmortem Cesarean Operation in Colonial Latin America and the Philippines” DESCRIPTION:\nMartha Few\, Professor of Latin American History and \ ;Women&rsquo\;s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\n\nDuring the twentieth century\, the cesarean operation became an increasingly common procedur e employed on women from which both the woman and the fetus were fully e xpected to recover. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries\, h owever\, this was not the case\, and the operation was almost exclusivel y performed on women who were already deceased. This talk\, an excerpt f rom a book project in process\, addresses the ways that Indigenous cultu ral frameworks\, gendered reproductive knowledge\, and local colonialism s informed and shaped the postmortem cesarean operation as knowledge of the procedure traveled over time and space in the Spanish Empire. It use s case studies of a series of cesareans that took place in a mission in colonial Guatemala during a smallpox epidemic as an entry point to begin to explore the ways that Indigenous cultures and local conditions\, as well as earlier histories of religion and conversion in specific colonia l settings\, influenced and shaped ideas about the postmortem cesarean o peration as knowledge of the procedure traveled. The case studies are co ntextualized with Indigenous language postmortem cesarean manuals\, Indi genous-Spanish language dictionaries\, bilingual confessional manuals\, and related materials regarding Mesoamerican\, Andean\, and Filipino ide as and cultures of pregnancy\, fetal development\, and childbirth as evi dence for the ways that Indigenous medical practices and religious cultu res in specific colonial locations interacted with the cesarean campaign s and shaped their implementation.\n\nFor more details: https://events.l a.psu.edu/event/hi_rls-0322/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Martha Few, Pro fessor of Latin American History and Women’s, Gender, and Sex uality Studies

During the twentieth century, the cesarean operatio n became an increasingly common procedure employed on women from which b oth the woman and the fetus were fully expected to recover. In the eight eenth and early nineteenth centuries, however, this was not the case, an d the operation was almost exclusively performed on women who were alrea dy deceased. This talk, an excerpt from a book project in process, addre sses the ways that Indigenous cultural frameworks, gendered reproductive knowledge, and local colonialisms informed and shaped the postmortem ce sarean operation as knowledge of the procedure traveled over time and sp ace in the Spanish Empire. It uses case studies of a series of cesareans that took place in a mission in colonial Guatemala during a smallpox ep idemic as an entry point to begin to explore the ways that Indigenous cu ltures and local conditions, as well as earlier histories of religion an d conversion in specific colonial settings, influenced and shaped ideas about the postmortem cesarean operation as knowledge of the procedure tr aveled. The case studies are contextualized with Indigenous language pos tmortem cesarean manuals, Indigenous-Spanish language dictionaries, bili ngual confessional manuals, and related materials regarding Mesoamerican , Andean, and Filipino ideas and cultures of pregnancy, fetal developmen t, and childbirth as evidence for the ways that Indigenous medical pract ices and religious cultures in specific colonial locations interacted wi th the cesarean campaigns and shaped their implementation.

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