Afterlife is Where We Come from Gottlieb Alma
Afterlife is Where We Come from Gottlieb Alma 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…
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Afterlife is Where We Come from Gottlieb Alma
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. 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. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge.
Throughout the book she also draws telling comparisons between Beng and Euro-American parenting, bringing home just how deeply culture A mother of two, Gottlieb includes moving discussions of how her experiences among the Beng changed the way she saw her own parenting.
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