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
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
Binding | Kindle Edition (3 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 300 |
ISBN-10 | B0065FOVH2 |
Publication Date | 11/29/2004 |
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