The Amchi at the margins : notes on childbirth practices in Ladakh Healing at the periphery : ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India Pordié, L. /Hancart Petitet, Pascale The social study of birth opens up a range of questions on maternity along an axis that runs from private life to the state. The event of birth appears as an experience of the body and the construction of the person and helps to understand maternity in its social, familial, medical, and technological environment. Obstetric practices are therefore embedded in a broad contextual sphere, for which the anthropology of reproduction offers some useful approaches. Duke University Press Pordié, L. (ed.) Kloos, S. (ed.) 2022 text https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010089013 fdi:010089013 Pordié L., Hancart Petitet Pascale. The Amchi at the margins : notes on childbirth practices in Ladakh. In : Pordié L. (ed.), Kloos S. (ed.), . Healing at the periphery : ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India Duke University Press, 2022, 119-142 EN INDE