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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Einarsdóttir, Jónína
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2004.
Series:Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Subjects:
Papel (African people) > Psychology.
Papel (African people) > Kinship.
Papel (African people) > Mortality.
Children > Mortality > Guinea-Bissau > Biombo.
Mothers > Guinea-Bissau > Biombo > Psychology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Teenagers.
Children > Mortality
Manners and customs
Mothers > Psychology
Biombo (Guinea-Bissau) > Social life and customs.
Guinea-Bissau > Biombo
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Marriage relations
  • Burdens of birth
  • Conceptualization of children
  • Diseases and death
  • Non-human children.

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