Pregnancy losses are ambiguous affairs in East Cameroon. Childbearing is not always
people's primary aim within their fragile sexual and marital relationships, and it is often …

Central to this book are Gbigbil women's experiences with different" reproductive
interruptions": miscarriages, stillbirths, child deaths, induced abortions, and infertility. Rather …

INTRODUCTION nitially, Celestine's pregnancy interruption seemed quite exceptional.
Never before had I heard so many people comment so openly on a case of interrupted …

Reproductive losses often raise ontological, etiological, and moral questions that do not
have clear-cut answers. As a result, the meanings of such losses may be multiple and vary …

Early pregnancy losses are often ambiguous events, for various reasons. First, happening at
a stage when a pregnancy may not yet be officially confirmed, physically felt, socially …

Over the last few decades, anthropologists interested in reproduction have increasingly
focused on the relationship between women's (limited) reproductive agency and (bio) …