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


Book Description
In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist J�n�na Einarsd�ttir 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 th... More
Book Information
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
BindingHardcover (3 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages300
ISBN-100299201309
ISBN-13978-0299201302
Publication Date12/22/2004
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About Jonina Einarsdottir (Author) : Jonina Einarsdottir is a published author. Published credits of Jonina Einarsdottir include Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau (Women in Africa and the Diaspora).
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