Death without weeping : the violence of everyday life in Brazil
by
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.
Title
:
Death without weeping : the violence of everyday life in Brazil
Author
:
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.
ISBN
:
9780520075375
Personal Author
:
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.
Publication Information
:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.
Physical Description
:
xiii, 614 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note
:
"A Centennial book"--Half t.p.
Contents
:
Prologue: Sugar House -- Introduction: Tropical Sadness -- Ch. 1. O Nordeste: Sweetness and Death --Ch. 2. Bom Jesus: One Hundred Years Without Water --Ch. 3. Reciprocity and Dependency: The Double Ethic of Bom Jesus -- Ch. 4. Delirio de Fome: The Madness of Hunger -- Ch. 5. Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs -- Ch. 6. Everyday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence -- Ch. 7. Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death -- Ch. 8. (M)Other Love: Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking -- Ch. 9. Our Lady of Sorrows: A Political Economy of the Emotions --Ch. 10. A Knack for Life:. The Everyday Tactics of Survival -- Ch. 11. Carnaval: The Dance Against Death -- Ch. 12. De Profundis: Out of the Depths --Epilogue: Acknowledgments and Then Some.
Subject Term
:
Poor women -- Brazil, Northeast.
Mother and infant -- Brazil, Northeast.
Infants -- Brazil, Northeast -- Death.
Violence -- Brazil, Northeast.
Geographic Term
:
Brazil, Northeast -- Social conditions.
Brazil, Northeast -- Social life and customs.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015694470 | 303.60981 S325D 1992 | 1 |