Tag: alloparenting

• The Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

  

  Learn more about Alma Gottlieb’s book “The Afterlife is Where We Come From” on the culture of infancy involving reincarnation and carrying among the Beng.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 19, 2015

  Babies, Blog

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