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      Self-sacrifice or natural donation? A life course perspective on grandmothering in new zagreb (Croatia) and east Berlin (Germany)

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          In this article we explore grandmaternal care and its interpretations in two European capitals of former socialist countries, Zagreb and Berlin. We describe the scope and variety of grandmaternal care practices both field sites and then contrast two grandmotherly interpretations of their intensive caring for grandchildren The different appraisal of their similar practice as self-sacrifice and natural donation respectively is embedded in different life course experiences of these two women. Both grandmothers lived in socialist states and made the experience of profound change with political and economic restructuring. But while socialist eastern Germany and Croatia had many similar traits they also differed in important aspects. While our interlocutors attributed their practice generally to post-socialist developments, they based their judgements on different aspects of state responsibility. While demographic developments might create similar opportunities for child care, national and local contexts vary and local actors attribute different meanings to their action.

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          Neste artigo exploramos o cuidado das avós e suas interpretações em duas capitais europeias de antigos países socialistas, Zagreb e Berlim. Descrevemos a extensão e variedade (da prática) do cuidado das avós nos dois campos de pesquisa e contrastamos as interpretações de seus cuidados intensivos para com os netos. A avaliação distinta da prática similar como, respectivamente, autossacrifício e doação natural é resultado das diferenças de experiência de vida destas mulheres. As duas avós viveram em Estados socialistas e vivenciaram a mudança profunda na sua reestruturação política e econômica. Mas enquanto a Alemanha Oriental e a Croácia tinham vários aspectos em comum também havia várias diferenças em aspectos importantes. Ao atribuir suas práticas no geral ao desenvolvimento pós-socialista nossas interlocutoras baseavam seus julgamentos em diferentes aspectos da responsabilidade do Estado. Enquanto desenvolvimentos demográficos podem criar oportunidades similares para o cuidado infantil, contextos nacionais e locais variam e atores locais atribuem significados diferentes as suas ações.

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                Horizontes Antropológicos
                Horiz. antropol.
                Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social - IFCH-UFRGS (Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil )
                0104-7183
                1806-9983
                December 2010
                : 16
                : 34
                : 427-452
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversity of Zurich orgdiv1Switzerland Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology Germany
                [02] orgnameUniversity of Graz Austria
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                S0104-71832010000200018 S0104-7183(10)01603418
                10.1590/S0104-71832010000200018
                787e13d3-01d7-4be7-a503-be20301f0a42

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 23 February 2010
                : 06 July 2010
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 47, Pages: 26
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                life course,cuidado infantil,cuidados das avós,experiência de vida,pós-socialismo,child care,grandmothering,post socialism

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