We Know How to Do These Things Birth In a Newar Village

For these villagers giving birth is a family affair while a young girl is in labor the birth attendant mother and motherinlaw alternate between lending a hand and storytelling Barbara Johnson studied documentary film and photography with Jerry Liebling and Elaine Mayes at Hampshire College from 19701974 She began working for the Smithsonians newly formed National Anthropological Film Center in 1975 She was sent to Nepal to document early childhood socialization and daily life in a large farming village in the Kathmandu Valley