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What did Scheper-Hughes notice about mother’s reactions during the baby die-off of 1965 in Bom Jesus, Brazil?

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He noticed that even though their children had died, the mothers were not mourning them. That's because infant mortality rates were so incredibly high, they were not getting attached to their infants, even believing some of them wanted to die.
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