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Of Cowries and Crying: A Beng Guide to Managing Colic
Author(s) -
Gottlieb Alma
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.1995.20.1.20
Subject(s) - crying , psychology , infant crying , psychoanalysis , social psychology
In this piece I pose what appears to be perhaps the simplest of questions having to do with the experience of infancy: What do caregivers do when the seemingly healthy babies for whom they are responsible simply will not stop crying?