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

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

Einarsdottir, Jonina

Hardcover

Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora

AnthropologyGeneral ParentingWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0299201309
ISBN13: 9780299201302
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Dec 22 2004
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
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.

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