Emberközpontú népi tudás a születés és szülés léthelyzeteiben
Anthropocentric Folk Knowledge in Existential Situations of Birth and Giving Birth

Summary/Abstract: The study refuses the one-sided view according to which only high science, specifically medicine is anthropocentric. It starts from the view based on extensive ethnographic and anthropological research that in our civilized contemporary world the process of giving birth and birth is almost as ritualized as in traditional communities. The folk culture of giving birth encompasses non-canonized cognition rather than academic knowledge, but it is also anthropocentric; during the millennia and centuries of its formation it has hardly proved to be useless or immoral. These are virtues that cannot be unequivocally said about high science. The study points at the relative laxity and delays of science in contrast with the centuries-old pragmatic experience of folk culture, based on a great deal of suffering.

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