Search for dissertations about: "Susan Reynolds Whyte"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Susan Reynolds Whyte.

2. 1. "Tired of weeping" : child death and mourning among Papel mothers in Guinea-Bissau

   Author : Jónína Einarsdóttir; Susan Reynolds Whyte; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : The study examines the assumption that mothers in poverty stricken areas with high rates of fertility and child mortality will, as a survival strategy, neglect their children, sometimes with a fatal outcome and then fail to mourn their death. The thesis is based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in 1993-98 among the Papel people in Guinea-Bissau, West-Africa. READ MORE