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Author Einarsdóttir, Jónína.

Title Tired of weeping : mother love, child death, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau / Jónína Einarsdóttir.

Publication Info. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Women in Africa and the diaspora
Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-225) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Marriage relations -- Burdens of birth -- Conceptualization of children -- Diseases and death -- Non-human children.
Summary 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.--Publisher description.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Papel (African people) -- Psychology.
Papel (African people)
Psychology.
Papel (African people) -- Kinship.
Kinship.
Papel (African people) -- Mortality.
Mortality.
Children -- Mortality -- Guinea-Bissau -- Biombo.
Children -- Mortality.
Guinea-Bissau -- Biombo.
Mothers -- Guinea-Bissau -- Biombo -- Psychology.
Mothers.
Biombo (Guinea-Bissau) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Mothers.
Other Form: Print version: Einarsdóttir, Jónína. Tired of weeping. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2004005379
ISBN 9780299201333 (electronic book)
0299201333 (electronic book)
0299201309 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0299201341 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780299201302 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780299201340 (paperback ; alkaline paper)