The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa by Alma Gottlieb

The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa

Alma Gottlieb

404 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 spir...

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