... absent, but in itsstead remained a much more nuanced perspective on what had beengained and lost in the transformation of birthing in the community and in Virginia.By working in the field, we ... onehand, and the official sanctions against traditional midwifery, on the other, one begins to glimpse the dimensions of the struggle over the “said” and the “unsaid” in the recollections of my informants. The ... another world and compares it with the taken for granted one”(1995, 195). Ethnography involves writing in from the margins, and in the process it encourages a repositioning of the center. Other...