Death Without Weeping The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

Name: Death Without Weeping The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
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ISBN: 9780520075375

ISBN-10: 0520075374

ISBN-13: 9780520075375

Edition: 1992

Authors: Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/9/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 632
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Prologue: Sugar House


Introduction: Tropical Sadness



Nordeste: Sweetness and Death



Bom Jesus: One Hundred Years Without Water



Reciprocity and Dependency: The Double Ethic of Bom Jesus



Delirio de Fome: The Madness of Hunger



Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs



Everyday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence



Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death



(M)Other Love: Culture, 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