The afterlife is where we come from : the culture of infancy in West Africa
by
Gottlieb, Alma.
Title
:
The afterlife is where we come from : the culture of infancy in West Africa
Author
:
Gottlieb, Alma.
ISBN
:
9780226305028
9780226305011
Personal Author
:
Gottlieb, Alma.
Publication Information
:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Physical Description
:
xxv, 404 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
:
Ch. 1. Working with Infants: The Anthropologist as Fieldworker, the Anthropologist as Mother -- Ch. 2. Do Babies Have Culture? : Explorations in the Anthropology of Infancy -- Ch. 3. The Beng World -- Ch. 4. Spiritual Beng Babies: Reflections on Cowry Shells, Coins, and Colic -- Ch. 5. Soiled Beng Babies: Morning Bath, Evening Bath, and Cosmic Dirt -- Ch. 6. Sociable Beng Babies: Mothers, Other Caretakers, and "Strangers" in a Moral Universe -- Ch. 7. Sleepy Beng Babies: Short Naps, Bumpy Naps, Nursing Nights -- Ch. 8. Hungry Beng Babies: Breast Water/Ordinary Water/Sacred Water and the Desire to Breast-feed -- Ch. 9. Developing Beng Babies: Speaking, Teething, Crawling, and Walking on (a Beng) Schedule -- Ch. 10. Sick Beng Babies: Spirits, Witches, and Poverty -- Ch. 11. From Wrugbe to Poverty: Situating Beng Babies in the World at Large.
Subject Term
:
Beng (African people) -- Social conditions.
Beng (African people) -- Psychology.
Beng (African people) -- Kinship.
Infants -- Care -- Côte d'Ivoire.
Infants -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Development.
Child rearing -- Côte d'Ivoire.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015773647 | H306.87408996 G686A 2004 | 1 |