Moral Figures examines entanglements of quantified population indicators, medical birthing practices, and Indigenous relationalities to understand gendered consequences of making reproduction public

List of Illustrations
Map of the Pacific Ocean and Vanuatu
Map of South Efate
Map of Port Vila
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. "The Shortage of Women Is the Cause of These Courts": Imbalanced Sex Ratios, Native Courts, and Marriage Disputes Made Public, 1910-1950
2. "The Nurses Looked Out for Us!": Hospital Births, Relational Infrastructures, and Public Concerns, 1950-1970
3. "It Will Help Planning for the Future": Making Men’s and Women’s "Subsistence" Public Knowledge in the First Census, 1966-1967
4. "I Just Wanted to Be Invisible": "Young Mothers" from Global Discourse to Village Experience, 2010-2020
5. "Well-Being for Melanesia": Alternative Indicators, Massage Healers, and Reciprocal Relationships, 2010-2020
Epilogue: Relations of Reproduction and Survival in the Anthropocene
Appendix 1: Population Size from 1850 to 2020
Appendix 2: Overview of Biomedical Health Services in Vanuatu in 1954
Works Cited

Alexandra Widmer is an associate professor of social anthropology at York University.