Alma Gottlieb

The Afterlife Is Where We Come From

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Produktbeschreibung

In this ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb focusses on the Beng people of West Africa. A Beng infant is thought to begin life filled with spiritual knowledge, having been reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 427
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9780226305028
• ISBN-10: 0226305023
• Artikelnr.: 21549948

Autorenporträt

Alma Gottlieb, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought and coauthor of Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa, both published by the University of Chicago Press. She is also the coeditor, most recently, of A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies.