Fetal Personhood in the Christian Philippines: The View from a Visayan Island

Issues of fetal personhood have been controversial in the Philippines in the context of reproductive health debates, but little is understood about how ordinary Filipinos construct fetal and early infant personhood in the context of their everyday lives. Thisarticle draws on ethnographic research in...

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Main Author: Bulloch, Hannah C.
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-41492024-08-07T03:42:03Z Fetal Personhood in the Christian Philippines: The View from a Visayan Island Bulloch, Hannah C. Issues of fetal personhood have been controversial in the Philippines in the context of reproductive health debates, but little is understood about how ordinary Filipinos construct fetal and early infant personhood in the context of their everyday lives. Thisarticle draws on ethnographic research in Siquijor, a Central Visayan island with a Catholic population. Based on conversations about pregnancy and miscarriage, I show that unlike notions promoted by elites of the Catholic Church, which fix personhood to the moment of conception, local notions of personhood are processual. Significantly, ensoulment, while thought to occur at conception, is not sufficient to produce a person.Keywords: fetal development • death • souls • hauntings • religion 2016-05-31T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol64/iss2/2 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4149/viewcontent/6297.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Issues of fetal personhood have been controversial in the Philippines in the context of reproductive health debates, but little is understood about how ordinary Filipinos construct fetal and early infant personhood in the context of their everyday lives. Thisarticle draws on ethnographic research in Siquijor, a Central Visayan island with a Catholic population. Based on conversations about pregnancy and miscarriage, I show that unlike notions promoted by elites of the Catholic Church, which fix personhood to the moment of conception, local notions of personhood are processual. Significantly, ensoulment, while thought to occur at conception, is not sufficient to produce a person.Keywords: fetal development • death • souls • hauntings • religion
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author Bulloch, Hannah C.
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Fetal Personhood in the Christian Philippines: The View from a Visayan Island
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title Fetal Personhood in the Christian Philippines: The View from a Visayan Island
title_short Fetal Personhood in the Christian Philippines: The View from a Visayan Island
title_full Fetal Personhood in the Christian Philippines: The View from a Visayan Island
title_fullStr Fetal Personhood in the Christian Philippines: The View from a Visayan Island
title_full_unstemmed Fetal Personhood in the Christian Philippines: The View from a Visayan Island
title_sort fetal personhood in the christian philippines: the view from a visayan island
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2016
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol64/iss2/2
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