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Nancy Scheper's Analysis

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes uses the term to call the pattern that women in the Alto do Cruzeiro differentiated infants to be kept from ones to die of neglect while delaying attachment to their own infant (342). Poverty, culture and political situations caused mortal neglect and affected their maternal emotions and their behaviors in different ways from ours. However, their mother instinct was just differently expressed, as NSH states, “mortal selective neglect and intense maternal attachment coexist” (356). Thus, the term signifies that we should recognize the cultural dimension, without judging their emotions, behaviors, and life through our own lens. Even maternal love, which is regarded as mother instinct, is differently constructed and formed
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