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Death Without Weeping : The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
by Scheper-Hughes, NancyEdition:
Reprint
ISBN13:
9780520075375
ISBN10:
0520075374
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
9/1/1993
Publisher(s):
Univ of California Pr
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Summary
Describes the social conditions in northeastern Brazil, including high infant mortality and state-sponsored violence
Table of Contents
| Prologue: Sugar House | |
| Introduction: Tropical Sadness | |
| O Nordeste: Sweetness and Death | |
| Bom Jesus: One Hundred Years Without Water | |
| Reciprocity and Dependency: The Double Ethic of Bom Jesus | |
| Deliacute;rio de Fome: The Madness of Hunger | |
| Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs | |
| Everday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence | |
| Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death | |
| (M)Other Love: Cultue, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking | |
| Our Lady of Sorrows: A Political Economy of the Emotions | |
| A Knack for Life: The Everyday Tactics of Survival | |
| Carnaval: The Dance Against Death | |
| De Profundis: Out of the Depths | |
| Epilogue: Acknowledgments and Then Some Notes | |
| Glossary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
