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.
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