Tired of weeping mother love, child death, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau /

Einarsdottir, Jonina.

Tired of weeping mother love, child death, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau / [electronic resource] : Jonina Einarsdottir. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004. - xiii, 236 p. : ill., maps. - Women in Africa and the diaspora . - Women in Africa and the diaspora. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-225) and index.

Introduction -- Marriage relations -- Burdens of birth -- Conceptualization of children -- Diseases and death -- Non-human children.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Papel (African people)--Psychology.
Papel (African people)--Kinship.
Papel (African people)--Mortality.
Children--Mortality--Guinea-Bissau--Biombo.
Mothers--Psychology.--Guinea-Bissau--Biombo


Biombo (Guinea-Bissau)--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

DT613.45.P36 / E56 2004

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