Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau by Einarsdottir, Jonina

Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299201340)

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Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau by Einarsdottir, Jonina

Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau

$31.25
Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau by Einarsdottir, Jonina

Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau

$31.25
Format: Paperback
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In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jonina Einarsdottir 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. Einarsdottir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.

Author: Jonina Einarsdottir
ISBN-10: 0299201341
ISBN-13: 9780299201340
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2004
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.10w x 0.63d

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