Jonina Einarsdottir

Gebundenes Buch

Tired of Weeping

Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau

Beschreibung

In this 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.

Autor

Jonina Einarsdottir is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland. Since 2001, she has conducted research on the ethical questions related to the treatment of underweight infants born in Iceland and the implication of such births for the families involved. She has done extensive fieldwork among the Papel of Guinea-Bissau.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780299201302
• ISBN-10: 0299201309
• Artikelnr.: 20995309