Giving birth in Northern Landscape

Toril Hanson

Year of Production: 2002 Category: C-film Duration: Sound: mono Language Norwegian English Subtitles Play the film Contact the director

The film is about giving birth in northern Norway. It also deals with contemporary midwifery practices, Western medicine and the challenge of the centralisation and decentralisation of health cervices. Through a Saami woman we learn about traditional Saami ways of birth and midwifery. Voices of different women – mothers and midwives, contemporary and traditional are heard.

Copyright: 2002 Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø
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