mother love, child death, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Einarsdóttir, Jónina
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6134 - B
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, kinderen, sterven, rouwproces, armoede, inheemse volkeren, Guinea-Bissau, 1990-1999
- Description
- The author discusses that mothers in high-poverty societies 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 of Guinea-Bissau, this work includes theoretical discussion of reproductive practices, conceptions of children, childcare customs, interpretations of diseases and death, and infanticide.