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

by Jonina Einarsdottir

Book Overview

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 the Biombo region, this work includes theoretical discussion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299201309
• ISBN13: 9780299201302
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"