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Tired of weeping : mother love, child death, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau /

In 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. Ba...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Einarsdóttir, Jónína
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2004.
Colección:Women in Africa and the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Marriage relations
  • Burdens of birth
  • Conceptualization of children
  • Diseases and death
  • Non-human children.