[Read free] Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
| #1987790 in Books | 2004-11-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.79 | File Name: 0299201341 | 300 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Very Informative|By Katherine Kenedy|Jonina really knows her stuff and makes sense to the reader. I got so much out of this book and wish more people used it as a resource for West Africa in general.|0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great|By Lauren Smith|The book was in good condition. It seemed like it was b||"I quickly learned that mothers weeping was an unmistakable sign of how vulnerable the life of a child is."
“A fascinating study of the facts of life surrounding child death and the parental responses to it.”—Dorothy D. Wills, "Am
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 ...
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