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

该项目旨在通过老挝政府的生殖、孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康项目人种志以及老挝农村和偏远地区的日常生殖，提供生殖和育儿人类学。它希望在老挝产生关于核心价值观的新知识，包括那些支持官方将儿童视为人力资本、将差异视为剥夺、将母婴生物医学保健视为普遍的价值观，以及生活在农村和偏远地区的实践、知识和情感中的（反）价值观。预期的好处包括对老挝文化和社会的深入了解、与国际卫生和经济议程相结合的社会主义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.