Tag: gbane

• Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

  

  The majority of ethnographies focus on the culture of adults or verbal children, babies, if considered at all, are described in the context of their relationships to adults and older children. In 2004, Alma Gottlieb published a unique ethnography, The Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa based on Beng people…

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 19, 2015

  Babies, Birth, Pregnancy

  alma gottlieb, babysitters, babywearing, Beng, clinginess, cosleeping, Cote d'Ivoire, difficult baby, elimination communication, enema, ethnography, gbane, infant sleep, khanga, napping, reincarnation, stranger danger, toilet training, torso carry, working mom