CONTENTS 



Page 



Foreword "^ 



Preface ^ 



Acknowledgments ^v 



List of informants ^^^ 



PART 1. THE ARAUCANIANS OF CHILE 3 



Introduction 3 



Prenatal factors 7 



Sterility and fertility 7 



Size of families ° 



Prenatal period 9 



Period of gestation 9 



Abortions 9 



Sex preference and sex prediction lO 



Rebirth " 



Food and conduct taboos ^ ^ 



Childbirth, and care of mother and newborn baby 12 



Place of birth, attendants, persons present, procedure, celebration, 



fumigation, recording the birth 12 



Stillbirths 16 



Navel cord ^^ 



Secundines, placenta, caul ^7 



Sterilizing eyes of newborn baby 1° 



Fontanels, head shaping, beautifying the face IQ 



The mother's bath, the baby's bath 20 



Postnatal interests ^^ 



Ear piercing, body decorations 21 



"Talcum powder," diapers 22 



Cradle, transporting baby, hammock 23 



Lullabies 26 



Teething, creeping, walking, talking, laughing 2^ 



First clothes ^9 



Nursing, weaning ^9 



Atypical conditions 3i 



Multiple births 31 



Incest, illegitimacy 3i 



Deformed children, sick babies, infanticide 32 



Color blindness, left-handedness, speech defects 34 



Adoptions, servants, slaves 34 



Names 3" 



Naming a child, origin of names, personal names 36 



Surnames 40 



Nicknames 41 



The family 42 



StatuS' in the community 42 



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