Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-BissauIn this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jónína Einarsdóttir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1993 to 1998 among the matrilineal Papel, who reside in the Biombo region, this work includes theoretical discussion of reproductive practices, conceptions of children, childcare customs, interpretations of diseases and death, and infanticide. Einarsdóttir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women. |
Contents
Marriage Relations | 27 |
Burdens of Birth | 60 |
Conceptualization of Children 888 | 88 |
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Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau Jonina Einarsdottir No preview available - 2004 |
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