1st Edition
The Use of Ritual for Perinatal Loss in Spain From Silence to Ceremony
By Lynn McIntyre
Copyright 2027
272 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book is an ethnographic study of perinatal loss ritual in Spain, spanning nine decades from 1936 to 2022. It investigates whether and how people in Spain have used ritual to confront the loss of a pregnancy or the death of a newborn, and what it costs them when they cannot.
Drawing on qualitative interviews with more than forty participants and fieldwork across Spain’s autonomous... Read more
1. Ritual & Perinatal Loss
2. Ritual Actions
3. Ritual Actors
4. Ritual Objects
5. Ritual Places
6. Discussion & Conclusion
Appendix: Additional Information about Methodology
Biography
Lynne McIntyre, MSW, MA, PhD is a perinatal psychotherapist, consultant, and trainer who has worked with thousands of families and the professionals who serve them. As the Clinical Director of Mammha, her efforts are dedicated to improving expectant, new, and bereaved parents’ experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. She received her doctorate in anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she is affiliated with the AFIN Research Group.
