A world of babies: imagined childcare guides for eight societies - alma gottlieb

Gottlieb, Alma: - Alma Gottlieb is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Gender and Womens Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at Brown University.

She conducted long-term fieldwork in Beng communities in Ivory Coast (1979-93) and now connects with young Beng people through social media.

A full-length ethnography of Beng childrearing practices appeared as The Afterlife Is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa (2004); she has also written the Beng-English Dictionary (with M.

Lynne Murphy, 1995) and Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought (1992).

With proceeds from two memoirs of their lives with the Beng - Parallel Worlds (1993) and Braided Worlds (2012) - Gottlieb and fiction writer Philip Graham co-founded the Beng Community Fund, a non-governmental organization that funds development projects in Beng villages.