Cultural values, birth and parenting: Reproductive health and Lao socialism

该项目旨在通过老挝政府生殖、孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康计划的民族志以及老挝农村和偏远地区的日常生殖，提供生殖和养育人类学。它预计将产生新的知识，在老挝的核心价值观，包括那些支持官方对待儿童作为人力资本，差异的剥夺，和母亲和儿童的生物医学护理作为普遍的，以及（反）价值观生活在农村和偏远的做法，知识和情感。预期的好处包括对老挝文化和社会的深入了解，社会主义与国际卫生和经济议程的结合，以及人类繁荣的人类学。

This project aims to provide an anthropology of procreation and parenting through ethnography of the Government of Laos’ Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health rollout as well as everyday reproduction in rural and remote Laos. It expects to generate new knowledge of core values in Laos, including those underpinning official treatment of children as human capital, difference as deprivation, and mother-and-child biomedical care as universal, as well as the (counter-)values lived in rural and remote practices, knowledge and sentiments. Anticipated benefits include advanced understandings of Lao culture and society, socialism as it articulates with international health and economic agendas, and the anthropology of human flourishing.