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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Einarsdóttir, Jónína.

Series:

Women in Africa and the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Papel (African people)--Psychology.

Papel (African people).

Papel (African people)--Kinship.

Papel (African people)--Mortality.

Children--Mortality--Guinea-Bissau--Biombo.

Children.

Children--Mortality.

Mothers.

Psychology.

Mortality.

Kinship.

Guinea-Bissau--Biombo.

Mothers--Guinea-Bissau--Biombo--Psychology.

Biombo (Guinea-Bissau)--Social life and customs.

Biombo (Guinea-Bissau).

Physical Description:

xiii, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004]

Summary:

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 practices, conceptions of children, childcare customs, interpretations of diseases and death, and infanticide. Einarsdottir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.

Contents:

Introduction

Marriage relations

Burdens of birth

Conceptualization of children

Diseases and death

Non-human children.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-225) and index.

ISBN:

0299201309

0299201341

OCLC:

54692108