Scan barcode
![The Afterlife Is Where We Come from by Alma Gottlieb](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCUGdTcXdRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e682e5d588bb4269f9208b3956297d32b38cabf9/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Afterlife%20Is%20Where%20We%20Come%20From.jpg)
427 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226305011
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 January 2004
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings
![The Afterlife Is Where We Come from by Alma Gottlieb](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCUGdTcXdRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e682e5d588bb4269f9208b3956297d32b38cabf9/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Afterlife%20Is%20Where%20We%20Come%20From.jpg)
427 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226305011
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 January 2004
Description
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...