Alma Gottlieb

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

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. Alma Gottlieb’s new book is The Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa. Gottlieb is an anthropologist at the University of Illinois.

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Music: Pieces of Africa performed by Kronos Quartet

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