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

Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau: Women in Africa and the Diaspora

Autor Jonina Einarsdottir
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 dec 2004
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. 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. Einarsdóttir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.
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ISBN-13: 9780299201302
ISBN-10: 0299201309
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 2 maps, 1 table, 6 b-w drawings (block prints), 4 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Women in Africa and the Diaspora

Recenzii

“A fascinating study of the facts of life surrounding child death and the parental responses to it.”—Dorothy D. Wills, American Anthropologist

“A well researched and clearly written critical study, narrated in an engaging style . . .”—Peter Karibe Mendy, International Journal of African Historical Studies

Notă biografică

Jónína Einarsdóttir is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland.  Since 2001, she has conducted research on the ethical questions related to the treatment of underweight infants born in Iceland and the implication of such births for the families involved. She has done extensive fieldwork among the Papel of 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. 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. Einarsdóttir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.