Afterlife Is Where We Come From

Name: Afterlife Is Where We Come From
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ISBN: 9780226305028

ISBN-10: 0226305023

ISBN-13: 9780226305028

Edition: 2003

Authors: Alma Gottlieb

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When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way the Beng rear their children?In this unique and engaging ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb explores how religious ideology affects every aspect of Beng childrearing practices—from bathing infants to protecting them from disease to teaching them how to crawl and walk—and how widespread poverty limits these practices. A mother of two, Gottlieb includes moving discussions of how her experiences…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


A Note on Pronunciation



Studying Babies, Studying the Beng



Working with Infants: The Anthropologist as Fieldworker, the Anthropologist as Mother



Do Babies Have Culture? Explorations in the Anthropology of Infancy



The Beng World



Days in the Lives of Beng Babies



Spiritual Beng Babies: Reflections on Cowry Shells, Coins, and Colic



Soiled Beng Babies: Morning Bath, Evening Bath, and Cosmic Dirt



Sociable Beng Babies: Mothers, Other Caretakers, and "Strangers" in a Moral Universe



Sleepy Beng Babies: Short Naps, Bumpy Naps, Nursing Nights



Hungry Beng Babies: Breast Water/Ordinary Water/Sacred Water and the Desire to Breast-feed



Developing Beng Babies: Speaking, Teething, Crawling, and Walking on (a Beng) Schedule



Sick Beng Babies: Spirits, Witches, and Poverty



From Wrugbe to Poverty: Situating Beng Babies in the World at Large


Notes


References


Index