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Tired of Weeping : Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau (Wi Women In Africa  Diaspora)
Tired of Weeping Mother Love Child Death and Poverty in GuineaBissau - Wi Women In Africa Diaspora
Author: Jonina Einarsdottir
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 condu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780299201302
ISBN-10: 0299201309
Publication Date: 12/22/2004
Pages: 300
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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