This is the first article in Slovene ethnography that explores characteristics of modern obstetric assistance in Slovenia. Author shed light on the level of medicalization of childbirth in maternity hospitals and satisfaction of women with the medical staff. This study also provides a platform for reconsidering the importance of midwifery profession as it revealed that in the case of normal childbirth (which means that women experience childbirth and the transition to motherhood in a positive manner) women consider the role of midwife of greater importance than that of obstetrician
COBISS.SI-ID: 1454291
Exploring the rites related to baptism from a sociohistorical perspective, the article reveals that rites are a dynamic and changeable social formation, for which reason it is only sensible to study them as they are. The article fills the methodological gap in rite studies: the author established that as late as the 1980s Slovene ethnologists considered rites only as remnants of archaic ontology with apotropaic and magic powers. The article highlights the importance of birth rites, which reflect our historically and culturally structured attitude towards birth.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28571437